Philosophy
Insurance coverage is an essential ingredient in a company's asset and business protection strategy. Well strategized and executed coverage is critical in today's environment characterized by increasing risks at home and abroad, concurrent with the insurance industry's development of a severely restrictive "hard market" approach.
Wood & Bender protects its clients' assets and business through the enforcement of their business insurance policies. Wood & Bender's unique understanding of the business of insurance coupled with the firm's trial skills assists policyholders in leveling the playing field when seeking to enforce the terms of their business insurance policies. The firm's founding partners sum up their philosophies in the following comments:
"While each case is unique, our focus for the client is always the same: Enforcing clients' rights under their insurance policies. We tell our clients they should "Settle for Everything" their policy provides, and nothing less," notes David Wood.
"Our policy enforcement success is based on the strategic principles outlined by the great military strategist Sun Tzu, 'every battle is won before it is fought'" says Dave Bender. "We know our opponents; we understand our terrain and the relative strengths and weaknesses of all parties' positions. This approach enables us to resolve many disputes through informal means including alternative dispute resolution. We are always prepared to go to trial when that is the only option."