Hiersche, Hayward, Drakeley & Urbach, P.C.

Insurance, Health Care & ERISA

Hiersche, Hayward, Drakeley & Urbach, P.C.
Addison, Texas
Insurance Practice Group

Hiersche Hayward’s insurance practice group utilizes a diverse, multi-disciplinary team in addition to lawyers with insurance expertise in regulatory, corporate, administrative, and litigation matters.    Other lawyers in the group have backgrounds in business and transactional law, corporate finance, securities, tax, health care, ERISA, and legislative services.  Effective coordination of these with other practice groups allows the firm to provide comprehensive and efficient counseling in the following areas of insurance practice and insurance law:

Regulatory Matters

New Insurance Products and Programs

• Legislative Services (Federal and State) Insurance Department(s) Approval
• Privacy Matters
• Insurance Policies, Forms, and Program
• Reinsurance Agreements, Treaty, and Facultative
• Producer, Broker, Agency, and Reinsurance Intermediary Agreements
• Service Agreements and Warranty Contracts
• Broker, Agency, and Reinsurance Intermediary Licensing
• Lloyd’s of London

Corporate and Transactional

Corporate Formation and Structures

• Insurance Holding Companies and Holding Company Regulatory Systems Filings and Registrations
• Insurance and Reinsurance Companies
• Health Care Companies including HMOs, PPOs and TPAs
• Captive Insurance Companies, Risk Retention Groups, and Large Deductible Programs
• Managing General Agents, Brokers, Agencies, Adjusters, and Licensing
• Alternative Financial Risk Insurance Strategies and Structures
• Insurance E-Commerce

Corporate Finance and Capital Markets Transactions

• Public Offerings and Private Placements (Equity, Debt, and Hybrid Offerings)
• Surplus and Capital Notes
• Securitizations and Tax-Driven Transactions
• Swaps, Derivatives, and Structured Securities
• Alternative Risk Distribution Transactions and Self-Insured Retention
• Insurance Lending Transactions, Lender and Borrower Representation; Structure, and Documentation of Letter of Credit Transactions

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Acquisition of Insurance Companies and Agencies
• Merger and Acquisitions of Insurance Company Shells, Acquisition of Agencies, and Books of Business
• Divestitures, Consolidations, and Reorganizations
• Assumption Reinsurance Transactions
• Redomestications

Litigation and Administrative Proceedings

Administrative, Arbitration and Receivership

• Insurance Department Investigations, Compliance, Appeal of Insurance Commissioner or Insurance Department Rulings, Cease and Desist Orders, Unauthorized Insurance Entities, and Programs
• Proceedings and Trials Before State Administrative Agencies, State Offices of Administrative Hearings, and Insurance Department Contested Cases
• International Arbitrations and Proceedings
• Complex Insurance and Reinsurance Coverage Cases, Excess Insurance
• Market Conduct Examinations
• Corporate Securities and Commercial Disputes

Litigation Services

• Insurance Claims Defense, Product Liability, Environmental and Toxic Torts, and Professional Indemnity
• Medical Malpractice Insurance Defense, Personal Injury, Physicians, Hospitals, and Medical Devices
• ERISA and ERISA Claims Litigation for Self Funded and Fully Insured Programs, Employee Welfare Benefit Plans, Treasury, and DOL Issues
• Class Actions and Complex Commercial Insurance Litigation
• Appellate Practice
• Bad Faith and Related Litigation
• Litigation Support and Expert Testimony
• Employment and Wrongful Termination Disputes
• Insurance and Reinsurance Coverage Issues and Disputes
• Workers’ Compensation
  

Work with Troubled Insurance Companies, Supervision, Conservation, Rehabilitation and Insurance Company Receiverships

• Federal Bankruptcy Court Proceedings of Insurance Holding Companies
• Director and Officer Litigation
• Managing General Agent Litigation
• Reinsurance Recovery, Collection, Litigation and Commutations
• Agent Balances, Collection, Litigation
• Premium Tax Recoveries
• Guaranty Association Issues
• Claims Bar Date and Proof of Claim Issues
• Counsel to Special Deputy Receivers

Hiersche, Hayward, Drakeley & Urbach, P.C.
15303 Dallas Parkway • Suite 700 • Addison, TX 75001
Phone: (972) 701-7000 • Fax: (972) 701-8765

The law firm of Hiersche, Hayward, Drakeley & Urbach, P.C., in Addison, Texas, represents clients throughout the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex, including Plano, Frisco, Allen, Fort Worth, McKinney, Denton, Carrollton, Richardson, Farmers Branch, Collin County, Tarrant County, Denton County, and Dallas County.