Barger & Wolen is a highly regarded law firm that provides comprehensive, creative and cost-effective solutions for our insurance, business, and related clientele.
Our practice encompasses a full range of legal services, including corporate and transactional, insurance regulatory, litigation and reinsurance. Our attorneys have a well-earned reputation for handling all types of matters within these practice areas. Industry specialization, combined with our depth of experience, is an important reason why Barger & Wolen LLP has emerged as a leader in the legal field.
Barger & Wolen LLP’s attorneys are well respected by clients, courts and adversaries alike. Richards D. Barger, founding member of the firm, is a former Insurance Commissioner, appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1968. Since the inception of the firm in 1976, under Mr. Barger’s leadership, the firm has grown to over 75 attorneys, with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Newport Beach, New York, Phoenix and London. Our clients span the world, and trust Barger & Wolen LLP to represent their interests with integrity.
Another key to the firm’s success is its commitment to personal service. As a mid-size law firm, we can provide our clients with individual attention, and yet we are able and prepared to handle the most complex of matters. We staff each matter to maximize results and minimize cost. We are dedicated to providing clients with solutions that best fit their goals.
Our firm is also committed to the interests of clients in several other ways. Whether called upon to author books, articles and treatises, or to speak at national and local conferences, or at the home office of our clients, Barger & Wolen LLP’s attorneys have devoted countless hours to educate, train and assist clients to meet the needs of their industry.
Specialties
Insurance Industry Representation, Life, Health, Disability & ERISA, Property & Casualty, Managed Healthcare, Insurance Industry Associations, Litigation and Trial Attorneys, Insurance Regulatory Law, Corporate and Transactional, Reinsurance
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Barger & Wolen LLP Michael Rosenfield and Chris Burusco update clients on how the Dodd-Frank Act does not necessarily preempt the California Insurance Code in respect to reinsurers. -
Barger & Wolen LLP California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced that he had obtained approval from the California Office of Administrative Law to make permanent the emergency regulation issued in 2011 allowing the Department of Insurance to enforce the medical loss ratio guidelines in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009 ("PPACA").
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Barger & Wolen LLP The California Department of Insurance has just announced that it has negotiated a $17 million multi-state Regulatory Settlement Agreement with Prudential Insurance Company of America.
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Barger & Wolen LLP Partner Larry Golub updates our clients in regards to the California Department of Insurance reaching a settlement in its lawsuit that sought to require insurers to disclose investments in companies doing business with Iran.
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Barger & Wolen LLP As of January 1, 2012, California has adopted new reporting requirements in respect to the Security Breach Notification Law. The purpose of the linked alert is twofold: (1) to remind our clients that both federal and state law requires financial institutions and most businesses to safeguard their customers’ information; and (2) to advise of new requirements for security breach notification letters.
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Barger & Wolen LLP The "2012 Automobile Insurance Discount Act" has qualified for the November 2012 ballot in California. The initiative would allow insurers to use continuous automobile insurance coverage with any admitted insurer or insurers as a rating factor for private passenger automobile insurance.
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Barger & Wolen LLP Does an "of counsel" title preclude your from collecting "attorney fees" in a dispute? The California Court of Appeal has weighed in on this case blogged about by David McMahon.
