Aviation

Crowell & Moring is listed among 17 firms that received praise from corporate counsel for improving their client focus in the BTI Client Service A-Team 2012 report by the BTI Consulting Group Inc.

According to the article, “While many firms have been increasing their emphasis on client service to remain competitive, a few made strong pushes toward more in-person meetings, satisfaction surveys and follow-up calls this year, earning them the designation of most improved in a new survey of corporate counsel.”

Crowell & Moring Insurance/Reinsurance Group partner Jonathan H. Pittman and counsel Paul Alp examined the Texas Supreme Court's January 11, 2008 rejection of an appeal in AIG Aviation Inc. v. Holt Helicopters Inc., involving a helicopter accident for which an insurer denied coverage. The piece examines insurance policies that routinely contain explicit provisions that establish the scope of the risk insured. According to Pttman and Alp, "such clauses are not to be taken lightly because they establish the fundamental nature of the risk that the insurer agrees to cover - the basis of the bargain for which the policyholder pays its premium."