Richard Oelsner handles a wide variety of insurance coverage and defense matters for insurers and their commercial entities. His current practice is nationally based and focuses on representing insurers in coverage matters and related litigation arising from standard ISO and manuscript primary and excess general liability, attorney, accountant, and miscellaneous professional liability policies. Richard’s representation of insurers includes both third party liability and first party claims. Richard also regularly defends insureds in construction defect, professional, construction, and environmental liability claims, including class actions, as well as in other varied defense matters in state and federal courts. In addition, he provides risk management counseling through a legal malpractice hotline offered as an added service to policyholders of one of the firm’s large insurance carrier clients and to an accounting firm.

Based on his extensive experience in insurance law, Richard often is asked by clients to draft, edit and review policies before they are submitted to insureds.