Gary Bague Email & Phone Number

Gary has decades of experience in the management and transfer of risk, and his clients rely on him as a trusted counselor and litigator. He regularly advises and defends the interests of a number of carriers and companies in various industries with regard to insurance issues arising out of virtually all lines of insurance, including: commercial, general liability and property, professional liability, auto, homeowners, environmental/pollution, workers' compensation, life, health, and disability. He is past chair of Haight's Risk Management & Insurance Law Practice Group, and is active in the Construction Law and Food Safety Practice Groups.He represents primary and excess insurers and reinsurers, brokers and agents in insurance coverage litigation, as well as in first and third party extracontractual litigation. Gary regularly provides coverage opinions, drafts provisions for insurance policies and self-insurance trusts, has coordinated fraud investigations on behalf of life insurers, and has served as national coverage counsel. He has advised hospitals regarding contracts with medical personnel, and construction contractors.Gary has advised and represented developers, general contractors and artisan subcontractors and their insurers in construction defect liability claims litigation, and in litigation over coverage disputes. He routinely advises and defends homeowners associations with regard to requirements under California’s Davis Stirling Act. He also represents clients with regard to issues concerning, controlled (wrap) insurance programs, additional insured issues, contractual and equitable indemnity, and anti-indemnity statutes, and assists in the review and drafting of construction contracts.In food safety, he advises and defends companies on issues of risk financing, risk transfer, and management of insurance assets in the context of product liability litigation, in addition to helping serve as national coordinating counsel in recall litigation.

Listed skills include Product Liability, Litigation, Civil Litigation, Commercial Litigation, and 12 others.

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  Partner

  Haight Brown & Bonesteel

  Sep 1980 - Present