Cozen O’Connor was established in 1970 and currently ranks among the nation’s largest law firms, with more than 1,00 attorneys practicing internationally in 33 cities across North America and Europe. It is a full-service firm with award-winning practices in litigation, business law, and government relations. Its clients include a host of the country’s Fortune 500 corporations.
The firm got its start representing the insurance industry, and it remains a global leader in the fields of insurance coverage and subrogation and recovery work. Cozen O’Connor attorneys have represented the largest American insurers in connection with claims arising from high-visibility matters dating to Three Mile Island in 1978. Over the intervening years, the firm’s attorneys also been retained – frequently as national coordinating counsel – in connection with numerous catastrophic losses including:
- Superstorm Sandy (2012)
- the Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil spill (2010)
- Hurricanes Ike and Gustav (2008)
- Hurricane Katrina (2005)
- Hurricanes Charley, Francis, Ivan, and Jeanne (2004)
- the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack (2001)
- American businesses’ Y2K Sue and Labor claims (1999)
- the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Skywalk collapse (1981)
- the Mount St. Helens eruption (1980)
Cozen O’Connor’s Global Insurance Department has attorneys who focus entirely in first and third-party insurance matters, and it is dedicated to keeping the firm’s clients apprised of court decisions, enacted or proposed legislation, and regulatory activities that impact the insurance industry.
