Kyle Heisner litigates high exposure insurance coverage and bad faith actions involving additional insureds, higher education institutions, pharmaceutical companies and hospitals, financial institutions, and corporate directors and officers. He advises national and international insurers, reinsurers and specialty line underwriters on coverage and policy issues, working with clients to address potential exclusions and liabilities before disputes arise. His insurance coverage work has also included construction defect, product defect, and ground contamination claims, as well as serving as monitoring counsel for professional liability coverage claims.

Along with his insurance coverage work, Kyle helps resolve contractual disputes; partnership agreements; intellectual property matters; real estate liability, disputes, and transactions; and complex commercial disputes. Some of his previous work includes the representation of attorneys, real estate professionals, directors and officers, accountants, architects and other professionals.

Whether negotiating a contract or managing a complex coverage matter, Kyle pays close attention to the immediate issues and the larger picture—where those particularities impact a client’s long-term priorities and opportunities—and how the legal strategy can support a businesses’ objectives. That attention to detail, along with an immersion in the legal challenges, helps him devise creative and effective solutions for his clients.

Recognitions

Earned Registered Professional Liability Underwriter (RPLU) designation

Managing Editor of Symposia, Villanova Law Review

AWARD METHODOLOGIES

 

Publications and Media

Editor, LexisNexis Practice Guide: Pennsylvania Civil Pre-Trial Practice

“Pennsylvania Rejects Garner Standard for Derivative Plaintiffs Seeking to Pierce Attorney-Client Privilege, Riding the E&O Line,” The Voice, DRI Newsletter, March 8, 2019

“Proving The ‘Case-Within-A-Case’ Standard,” For The Defense, April 2018

“Who Is the Client? Addressing Privilege with Dissident Directors,” The Voice, DRI Newsletter, July 26, 2017

“Exploring Equitable Estoppel: This Certificate Does Not Amend, Extend or Alter the Coverage Afforded…Or Does It?” DRI In-House Defense Quarterly, Fall 2016

“Proceed With Caution: GLBA Considerations When Representing Insurers, Agents and Brokers,” The Voice, DRI Newsletter, August 10, 2016

“Utilizing Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d) as Insurance for Inadvertent Disclosure and a Cost-Saving Device,” Defense Digest, June 2016

“Fraudulent Joinder of Insurance Employees in Bad Faith Litigation,” For the Defense, May 2016

“Keeping the Faith. Understanding Reverse Bad Faith,” Claims Management, May 2016

“Invoking Judicial Estoppel to Secure Dismissal,” The Legal Intelligencer, November 25, 2014

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Teaching and Presentations

“Legal Ethics and Technology,” National Business Institute, December 2019

“Legal Ethics and Malpractice Avoidance,” National Business Institute, June 2019

“Admission/Exclusion of Unique Evidence,” National Business Institute, August 2018

“Strategies for Legal Research on the Web,” National Business Institute, Princeton, NJ, June 2015

Memberships and Community

Member, DRI
Past publications chair, Professional Liability Committee

Member, Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS)

Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, arbitrator

Past member, Penn Law Inn of Court

 

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