Brian G. Friel

Overview

Brian Friel is Managing Partner of Miller Friel. For over 28 years, Mr. Friel has appeared on behalf of corporate policyholders in numerous state and federal courts throughout the country, where his litigation and arbitration skills have led to a number of successful court verdicts and arbitration awards, including a $112 million breach of contract and bad faith jury verdict in May 2023 in the Northern District of Indiana.

Mr. Friel’s focus is on claims involving professional management liability policies, including D&O, EPLI and Fidelity, and his clients range from oil and gas companies, chemical companies, pipeline operators, retailers, to industrial manufacturers. Mr. Friel negotiated one of the largest D&O insurance settlements ever reached in the United States, and has litigated a number of a major D&O cases on behalf of well-known financial institutions. Mr. Friel has represented a major international construction and engineering firm with respect to D&O, E&O and Fidelity policies related to various civil, regulatory and criminal proceedings involving alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the False Claims Act, and a host of other civil and criminal laws and regulations.

In addition to these recent and current engagements, Mr. Friel’s practice involves all other lines of corporate insurance, including E&O, General Liability, Fiduciary, Environmental/Pollution, and Builders Risk. Mr. Friel’s negotiating skills and keen understanding of business issues have also resulted in numerous other settlements on behalf of oil and gas companies, electric utilities, retailers, developers, construction/engineering companies, and financial institutions, all without the need for expensive litigation.

Prior to co-founding Miller Friel, PLLC, Mr. Friel was a shareholder at the international law firm of Greenberg Traurig LLP, where he, along with Mark Miller, managed the firm’s Insurance Recovery and Advisory Practice Group. Brian Friel is a graduate of Boston College magna cum laude and a graduate of St. John’s University School of Law cum laude, where he was an Editor of the St. John’s University Law Review.