Clausen Miller: Recoveries In China
September 06, 2011
Our On-The-Ground Team Can Handle It.
Clausen Miller has been fully engaged in U.S./China international litigation for the better part of a decade. Clausen Miller's Shanghai office has flourished, bringing significant expertise and cost savings to its clients world-wide. With a dedicated team of experienced China international litigation experts and seasoned recovery attorneys, Clausen Miller is uniquely positioned to achieve your recovery goals for China.
Our on-the-ground approach to claim handling in China provides quality investigation, evaluation, and litigation management. Here are a few examples:
Lack of early involvement of counsel proves fatal to maintaining a suit where a fire occurred at a surgical mask manufacturing facility and counsel and C & O experts were not initially retained. Local fire authorities sealed off the scene for several months. Once the scene was released, the critical evidence had been disturbed or removed from the scene and, therefore, subrogation was impossible.
Early investigation reveals contractual bar where a heavy strip mining machine was damaged by fire. The machine was part of a sophisticated network of machinery used to excavate coal in China. Upon start up of the machine following alterations, a fire occurred, damaging the machine, and other equipment. Subrogation counsel and an appropriate expert were retained and soon after determined contractual waiver of subrogation prevented a recovery, in an otherwise ideal subrogation setting.
Early retention of counsel proves effective in maintaining risk exposures and coverage determination in one of China's largest food contamination exposure cases, affecting 300,000 infants. Clausen Miller attorneys were able to secure private evidence regarding the exposure, advise
on loss reserves, and contain risk exposures for a multi-national corporation invested in the enterprise.
Retention as monitoring counsel for a multi- million dollar factory equipment loss in Shanghai brings focused litigation strategy to a case of questionable liability. Clausen Miller is experienced in working with local attorneys in China and providing the litigation management experience and oversight often lacking in the developing world.
Early retention proves effective in discreetly identifying potential subrogation target in China, where a defective product manufactured in China was imported to Australia, ultimately causing a multi- million dollar fire loss to a manufacturer in Australia. Clausen Miller attorneys were able to conduct discreet investigations into the viability of the target and evidence at issue.
