Greg Van Houten

Greg’s representative experience prior to joining Latham includes:

Insurance Recovery Litigation

• Facilitating several multi-party settlements of catastrophic wrongful death and bodily injury matters by securing full insurance funding for the same
• Securing full insurance funding for settlement of securities class action, notwithstanding insurer’s invocation of the “bump-up exclusion”
• Recovering full policy limit and attorneys’ fees for a publicly traded oil and gas company, after depositions and successful motions practice in Oklahoma state court
• Recovering full primary and excess-level policy limits and attorneys’ fees for a multinational medical laboratory after depositions and summary judgment victory in Texas federal court
• Settling bet-the-company litigation, with 100% insurance funding, after prevailing at summary judgment on the insurer’s duty to defend in Washington federal court
• Writing a successful appellate brief in Certain Underwriters v. BioEnergy, where a New York appellate court held the insured could recover excess of policy limits because of the insurer’s breach of contract

Insurance Renewals

• Achieving several meaningful policy wording changes in D&O and E&O/Media/Cyber policy towers for a publicly traded media tech company during the 2024 renewal cycle

Insurance-Related M&A Transactions

• Representing a publicly traded industrial manufacturing company in the successful divestiture of its legacy asbestos liabilities, which hinged on a US$143.5 million insurance recovery
• Representing Municipal Emergency Services, a supplier of safety equipment to first responders, as insurance counsel in connection with its divestiture of PFAS-related liabilities

Oil and Gas Litigation

• Recovering fishing costs, expenses, and lost profits after depositions and successful motions practice in Oklahoma federal court