Gregory O. Eisenreich

Gregory Eisenreich is a partner in Barger & Wolen LLP’s Los Angeles office. He has been with the firm since 1995. Mr. Eisenreich has represented insurance companies throughout the United States, appearing in many state and federal courts. He has worked on a wide range of litigation and regulatory matters, including those that have been brought by plaintiffs in a representative capacity, such as class actions.

Mr. Eisenreich’s experience includes insurance coverage and insurance bad faith litigation, reinsurance disputes, class actions challenging insurers’ business and claims handling practices, as well as various other insurance related contractual and business disputes. In addition, he has extensive experience handling regulatory matters before the California Insurance Commissioner.

Mr. Eisenreich’s experience includes a wide variety of matters. Among the more notable, he has represented several insurers in class actions brought by insureds challenging the practice of using computer software to estimate the value of property damage claims and the reasonableness of medical bills. Mr. Eisenreich also represented an insurer seeking reinsurance recoveries for its settlement of coverage disputes involving breast implants and non-breast implant product liability claims and has defended insurers in multi-insurer, multi-site, environmental coverage actions. He has defended an insurer’s underwriting practice of refusing to provide coverage for elderly pilots in certain classes of high performance aircraft and has represented an insurer in a putative class action brought by the insurer’s agents alleging that it was a breach of the agents’ agency agreements for the insurer to cease selling homeowners insurance following the Northridge Earthquake. He has also represented an insurer in a number of first party bad faith actions involving alleged toxic mold.

Mr. Eisenreich is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Central, Northern, Eastern and Southern Districts of California, the Eastern District of Michigan, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.