Pillsbury’s Insurance Recovery & Advisory practice has been named “Insurance Group of the Year” by Law360—the practice is one of only five groups recognized that represent policyholders. In selecting its winners, Law360 reviewed 730 submissions across 30 practice areas. The award recognizes those practice groups that have achieved the biggest wins based on the significance, size and complexity of the matters between November 2014 and November 2015.

In 2015 alone, Pillsbury’s Insurance team recovered more than $1 billion for the firm’s clients. Among many successful outcomes over the past year was a $55 million jury verdict over AIG led by recent Law360 MVP Joseph Jean—the largest verdict in the Superior Court of California, County of Alameda since at least 2006. Additionally, a team led by practice co-chair Peter Gillon accomplished a stunning insurance coverage win in the energy sector for client Lion Oil Co., which was awarded $72 million in damages from lost income and expenses stemming from a 2012 breach of a pipeline carrying oil from Louisiana production fields to a Lion refinery in Arkansas. Another notable outcome included a $23 million summary judgment that Melissa Lesmes achieved for client Pavarini Construction in connection with claims arising from a high-profile condo building project in Miami.

“2015 has been a phenomenal year for Pillsbury’s Insurance Recovery & Advisory practice and — more importantly — for our clients,” said practice co-chair Robert Wallan. “To be selected as one of Law360’s “Insurance Practice Groups of the Year” is quite an honor. It reflects both the impressive results we delivered over the past 12 months and the high bar we have set for ourselves in the year ahead.”

Pillsbury’s Insurance Recovery & Advisory practice was one of the first insurance policyholder practices in the United States—dating back to the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906, when the firm helped business owners recover from their insurers to rebuild the city. The group has recovered nearly $15 billion of insurance proceeds for policyholder clients —including more than $1 billion each in 2013, 2014 and 2015 — and regularly helps them obtain broad insurance coverage to address the risks inherent in business today. The group has been lauded by Chambers USA, The Legal 500 and Best Lawyers in America.

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