Insurance coverage litigation has been a major part of Mr. Brydon's practice. He was trial and appellate counsel in Buss v. Superior Court, in which he successfully argued before the California Supreme Court the seminal decision vesting insurers with the right of reimbursement of defense expenses for non-covered claims in mixed coverage actions. He also personally handled and argued PPG v. Transamerica Ins. Co., another California Supreme Court case of national significance, wherein punitive damages imposed against an insured in a failure to settle case were held not recoverable by the insured in a subsequent bad faith action. That ruling resulted in the complete dismissal of the insured's underlying bad faith lawsuit. (He also tried and obtained a defense award for the primary carrier in a companion equitable subrogation lawsuit in that case, which was filed by the excess insurer who paid nearly $3 million of the underlying compensatory judgment.)

Mr. Brydon has been involved in the oversight of major lines of insurance business for several carriers, providing coverage and claims handling advice on a company wide basis. These programs have involved personal lines such as non-standard auto programs, as well as novel commercial programs with non-ISO wording. He has defended coverage positions involving conventional and non-conventional risks ranging from automobile accidents, construction claims (developers, general contractors and subcontractor insureds), surety bonds (Mr. Brydon obtained a defense verdict in the last surety bond bad faith case to be tried in California before the Supreme Court abrogated that tort), to entertainment & sports claims (e.g. Sony Pictures; Bruckheimer Productions; Prince, Bruce Willis; the NBA), pollution issues, intellectual property matters, products liability claims and inter-insurer coverage disputes.

In addition to his litigation and trial experience, Mr. Brydon has been a speaker and panel member at several coverage and bad faith seminars for the California Association of Defense Counsel and DRI. He was recently invited to speak on developments related to the handling of independent counsel issues (Cumis) and he has advised carriers and other attorneys on issues relating to fee allocations following the Buss decision. He and others in the Firm have assisted carriers in the oversight of independent counsel and participated in fee reviews.