Professional Liability Defense |
Lynberg & Watkins represents professional clients in a wide range of fields such as architecture, engineering, construction management, accounting, insurance, real estate, security, law, environmental testing, medicine, pharmacology, psychiatry, and psychology.
In defending architects, engineers and construction managers, the firm represents clients against claims involving single family homes to billion dollar resort hotels. These claims can involve allegations of design defects, improper project management or the miscalculation of engineering or geotechnical tolerances. While the traditional claim against these professionals may involve design issues and related claims of property damage, an evolving trend has led to the incorporation of professional negligence allegations that result not only in design defects and property damage, but also in concurrent bodily injury claims arising from purported exposure to various environmental factors.
As with architects and engineers, those professionals who are involved in the field of environmental testing face claims of professional negligence that allegedly results in exposure by claimants to various airborne contaminants such as mold spores, asbestos and assorted toxins. Claimants in these matters can be single individuals, whole families or workers in buildings alleged to be contaminated.
Liability with respect to real estate transactions stems from a wide variety of circumstances, such as inspection, appraisal, escrow, property listing and warranty disputes, among others. While some of these claims may be favorably disposed of at the initial pleading stage of litigation, others require skillful legal effort in order to uncover the grounds needed to manage the risk in a manner acceptable to the client.
For those professionals practicing in the fields of security, law, accounting, insurance, medicine, pharmacology, psychiatry, and psychology, as with those other fields listed above, the firm works closely with the client in order to formulate the best possible defense strategy. Lynberg & Watkins represents professionals facing these claims in a manner which aggressively protects their interests, yet at the same time minimizes their ultimate risk, inasmuch as claims of professional negligence, more than other types of claims, are especially personal to the client.
