Mr. Kendrick is Senior Counsel in Haight Brown & Bonesteel’s Los Angeles office and a member of the Risk Management & Insurance Law Practice Group. His practice is concentrated in insurance coverage and bad faith litigation. His experience extends from personal lines matters through complex commercial and environmental coverage cases. These have also included numerous agent/broker cases and reinsurance matters.
Although his work is primarily located in the Southern California market, Mr. Kendrick’s caseload has involved matters throughout the United States, as well as for numerous international carriers located in Europe, the Caribbean and the Pacific Rim.
Representative clients have included the Aetna Casualty & Surety Company; Allianz Insurance Company; American States Insurance Company; Farmers Insurance Group; Fireman's Fund Insurance Company; Highlands Insurance Company; Arthur J. Gallagher & Company; Granite State Insurance Company; Great American Insurance Company; John Hancock Insurance Company; New Hampshire Indemnity Company; Redlands Insurance Company; Tokio Marine Ltd.; Travelers Indemnity Company; and Twenty-First Century Insurance Company.
In addition, Mr. Kendrick has experience in a broad variety of general and products liability cases. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Mr. Kendrick worked as a clerk in the Los Angeles City Attorney's Criminal Division.
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Published Decisions:
Golden Eagle Ins. Corp. v. Cen-Fed, Ltd. (2007) 148 Cal.App.4th 976 (Coverage for costs award under supplementary payments provision)
20th Century Ins. Co. v. Schurtz (2001) 92 Cal.App.4th 1188 (Application of criminal act exclusion to shooting by insured)
First State Ins. Co. v. Superior Court (2000) 79 Cal.App.4th 324 (Right of insurer to bring summary judgment motion in complex environmental coverage action)
Wausau Underwriters Ins. Co. v. Unigard Security Ins. Co. (1998) 68 Cal.App.4th 1030 (Allocation of defense costs among insurers for successor corporation)
