Who We Are
Charlston, Revich, Harris & Hoffman LLP prides itself on providing highly skilled and responsive services in the practice of insurance law. The firm specializes in two subject matter areas: litigation and insurance coverage and bad faith. The litigation practice focuses on the defense of professional liability claims, employment claims, director and officer liability claims, and general business and commercial claims. The insurance coverage and bad faith practices is focused on all aspects of insurance coverage including professional liability, general liability, property, director and officer liability, public entity liability, asbestos, environmental, mass toxic tort, and construction defect claims. We provide cost-effective and innovative solutions to problems and issues of our insurance company clients.
CRHH News
JUDGMENT: $15 Million – CRHH obtains judgment of approximately $15 million in SFSC jury trial. The judgment was upheld on appeal in April 2021.
Tim Harris and Steve Soskin secured a 12-0 verdict of over $7million for client Fireman’s Fund Ins. Co., against Triton, Subs, Inc., and three guarantors insured by Travelers Ins. The San Francisco Superior court trial started May 20, 2019, and the verdict was returned on June 13, after less than 4 hours of deliberation. Post-trial […]
Jury Trial Victory Defeats Claim Linking Autism with Pesticide
The Firm recently won a landmark jury trial involving pesticides and autism. The plaintiff, a 13 year old boy, through his mother as guardian ad litem, claimed “brain damage” from his mother’s alleged inhalation exposure to an organophosphate pesticide (Dursban) while pregnant. Plaintiff asked the jury to award $20 million in damages. Over two years before […]
Jury Trial Victory In Rescission/Bad Faith Suit
Jeffrey Charlston secured a significant victory for firm clients United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company (“USF&G”) and American Specialty Insurance & Risk Services (“American Specialty”) after a month long jury trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. In United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company v. Lee Investments, LLC, the […]
Trial Victory in Equitable Contribution Claim Among Insurers
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Arbitration Award for Insurer Against Managing General Agent for Breach of Agency Agreement
The Firm secured an award for client Great Divide Insurance Company in an arbitration against Monarch Management Corporation, a managing general agent for Great Divide under an agency agreement. Great Divide demanded arbitration because of the omission of an abuse and molestation exclusion in breach of the underwriting guidelines under which Monarch was authorized to issue […]
Complex Two-Week Bad Faith Bench Trial
The Firm just completed a two week bench trial defending an unusually complex bad faith action based on denial of coverage in a legal malpractice action. The legal malpractice action arose from the insured law firm’s defense of a rental car company in an underlying action involving multiple deaths and quadriplegics. Thus the recent bad faith […]
CRHH celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2022.
CRHH celebrated in 2022 its 35th Anniversary of the date the business commenced on December 16, 1987.