Bullivant Houser Bailey PC's Subrogation Group provides assistance to property insurance professionals throughout the western United States. We provide assistance in large loss investigations, preserving subrogation rights during claims adjustment, analysis of recovery potential against potentially responsible tortfeasors, and prosecution of subrogation claims to verdict.

Bullivant has considerable experience in overseeing investigations into the origin and cause of catastrophic losses such as fires, explosions, and structural collapses involving buildings, multifamily dwellings and residences, industrial and commercial equipment, and maritime vessels.

Our assistance to insurance clients in the early stages of a property loss comes in many forms. We maintain an extensive database of experts in the fire origin and cause investigation area. We also help clients identify when forensic experts with expertise in a specific area should be included in the investigation effort. We regularly counsel clients in their relations with public authorities so that governmental investigations stay within their jurisdictional limits so as not to prejudice private, independent loss investigations by property owners and their insurers. Finally, we regularly supervise examinations of physical evidence retrieved from loss sites, utilizing nationally recognized standards for such examinations, thereby allowing fair opportunities to assess potential causes of a catastrophic loss while minimizing the chances for compromising or spoliating physical evidence.

Bullivant also regularly provides legal assistance to its clients in order to preserve their subrogation rights during the claims adjustment process. This includes providing counsel concerning the use of subrogation loan receipts, express assignments of certain legal rights, analysis of who will have the first rights of recovery against potentially responsible tortfeasors, and identification of those insured losses that will be legally recoverable in a lawsuit.