Law Firm Overview

McCollum, Crowley, Moschet & Miller, Ltd. offers clients a wealth of legal experience across a broad range of subject areas. The firm provides legal advice, counsel and litigation services to corporations, insurance carriers, and individuals from offices in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Colorado.

The firm's practice extends to a number of legal areas, including (in alphabetical order):

• Appellate and motion practice;
• Civil litigation, particularly defense representation;
• Clergy and religious institutions;
• Commercial and business law;
• Construction law, including construction defects and mold claims;
• Environmental and toxic torts litigation;
• Fire, explosion and mass disaster litigation;
• Immigration and naturalization law;
• Insurance law, including multi-party coverage litigation and coverage opinions;
• Litigation management and coordinating defense counsel;
• Personal injury and products liability law;
• Professional malpractice and negligence; and
• Workers' compensation law.

The firm has earned the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory's highest AV rating for legal ability and faithful adherence to professional and ethical standards, and has been recognized for high professional legal standards and ethics in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers. A large part of the firm's practice is insurance coverage and defense, as well as insurance liability. McCollum Crowley is an "approved panel" law firm for many insurance companies and offers decades of collective litigation defense experience.

McCollum Crowley attorneys serve clients in four distinct ways:

• As defense counsel and defense litigators for claims and suits against businesses and carriers;
• As legal counsel to business and individuals seeking to avoid liabilities and protect legal rights; and
• As litigation managers and coordinating counsel for businesses with high self-retentions and/or large case loads; and
• In appropriate cases, as legal representatives for clients asserting rights in civil actions.

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS

McCollum Crowley serves a wide spectrum of businesses, insurance providers, and individuals all over the country, especially those operating in the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Colorado. The firm provides coordinating counsel and litigation management services to clients with legal issues in multiple jurisdictions, and is on the approved list of defense firms for many insurance companies. McCollum Crowley has longstanding relationships with major carriers and represent several large companies in insurance coverage and defense, construction defect defense and workers' compensation matters. Clients the firm has represented include:

• Accident Fund Ins. Co. of America
• ACE Insurance Co.
• Acuity Insurance
• Adjusting Services Unlimited
• AIG Companies
• Algas Industries, Inc.
• Allen-Lee Homes, Inc.
• Alliant TechSystems
• Allied Systems, Ltd.
• AmComp
• American Crystal Sugar
• American Family Insurance
• American Insurance Company
• American Interstate
• American Physicians Capital, Inc.
• Anoka County
• Argonaut Insurance Company
• Baldwin & Lyons
• Berkeley Risk Administrators
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities
• Blue Cross/Blue Shield
• Broadspire Services
• Cambridge Integrated Service Group
• Capitol Indemnity
• Christian Brothers Risk Pooling Trust
• Colson Custom Homes
• Continental Insurance Company
• Country Mutual Insurance
• Crawford & Company
• CSK - Checker Auto Parts
• Dakota County
• Dean R. Johnson Construction Co.
• Diocese of Winona
• EBI Companies
• Employers Mutual Companies
• Equity Adjustment Company
• Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company
• Federal Express Corporation
• Fireman's Fund Insurance Co.
• First State Insurance
• First Student, Inc.
• Framing, Inc.
• Frank Gates Service Company
• G & K Services
• GAB Robins
• Gallagher Bassett Corporation
• Gander Mountain Co.
• Gates, McDonald & Co.
• General Casualty
• Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co.
• Halley's Custom Homes
• Hanson Building Materials
• Harleysville Insurance Companies
• Hartford Insurance Company
• Hawkeye Insurance Company
• Indiana Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company
• Insurance Federation of MN
• J-Berd Mechanical Contractors, Inc.
• Keith Waters & Associates
• Kemper Insurance Group
• Kraft General Foods
• Kraus Anderson Company
• Land O'Lakes
• Landstar Ligon Corporation
• LeGran Homes
• Liberty Mutual
• Link Snack Foods, Inc.
• Lumbermen's Underwriting Alliance
• Marathon Oil
• Marriott Casualty Claims
• McDonald's Corporation
• Meadowbrook Insurance Group
• Menard, Inc.
• Meritclaim General
• MetLife Auto and Home
• Metropolitan Mechanical Contractors, Inc.
• Michael Hayes Homes
• Minnesota Insurance Guaranty Association
• Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company of America
• National Car Rental
• National Specialty Insurance
• Nedegaard Construction Co.
• Northern Pipeline Corporation
• Ohio Casualty
• Old Republic Insurance Company
• Owens Companies, Inc.
• Parker Hannifin Corporation
• Pharmacists Mutual Insurance Company
• Pratt Homes
• R. A. Kot Homes, Inc.
• Risk Administration Services
• Royal SunAlliance Insurance
• RTW, Inc.
• Rural Mutual Insurance Companies
• Ryder Services Corporation
• Safeco Insurance Companies
• Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
• Sedgwick Claims Management Services
• Self-Insured Security Fund
• Sharratt Design Company
• Speedway SuperAmerica
• State Auto Insurance Co. (formerly Meridian)
• State Fund Mutual Insurance Company
• Superior Services, Inc.
• The Builders Group of Minnesota
• Transprotection Insurance Company
• Travelers Insurance Company
• United Vaccines, Inc.
• University of Minnesota
• University of Minnesota Hospitals
• Vanliner Insurance Company
• Veit & Company
• Waste Management
• West Bend Mutual
• Western National Insurance
• Westfield Insurance Companies
• Wooddale Builders
• Zurich Insurance Companies

Areas of Practice

• Civil Litigation
• Defense Representation
• Clergy and Religious
• Commercial and Business Law
• Construction Law
• Construction Defects
• Mold Claims
• Sexual Abuse and Harassment
• Environmental
• Toxic Torts
• Fire and Explosion Litigation
• Insurance Law
• Multi-Party Coverage Litigation
• Litigation Management
• Coordinating Defense
• Personal Injury
• Products Liability Law
• Negligence
• Immigration and Naturalization law

West Practice Categories

Business & Commercial Law, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Constitutional Law, Discrimination, Freedom of Religion, Construction Law, Housing & Construction Defects, Criminal Law, Environmental Law, Estate Planning, Family Law, Immigration, Naturalization & Citizenship, Insurance Law, Litigation & Appeals, Personal Injury -- Defense, Personal Injury -- Plaintiff, Products Liability Law, Real Estate Law, Toxic Torts