Jim Maloney Appointed Co-Chair of Baker Sterchi Insurance Coverage & Bad Faith Practice Group

Baker Sterchi Member Jim Maloney has been named co-chair of the firm’s Insurance Coverage & Bad Faith Practice Group, succeeding Michael Shunk and joining Clay Crawford, who continues to serve as co-chair. The group represents national and international insurers in complex coverage analysis and opinions, declaratory judgment actions and bad faith and extra-contractual claims.

Based in Kansas City, Maloney focuses his practice on insurance coverage and bad faith litigation, as well as appellate work and civil and insurance defense litigation. He has secured decisions that have helped shape the law and has testified in legislative hearings on tort reform measures affecting insurers. He has also contributed to the development of legal theories and defenses in bad faith and related litigation and has guided insurers through multimillion-dollar coverage and bad faith matters, as well as complex pre-litigation analysis and strategy planning.

Maloney is a member of the American College of Coverage Counsel and the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance. He also serves on the steering committee of ALFA International’s Insurance Practice Group and is a member of DRI’s Insurance Law Committee. A frequent speaker on issues affecting insurers in first- and third-party coverage matters, he is admitted to practice in Missouri and Kansas, as well as before the Supreme Court of the United States.