Environmental, Land Use And Property Rights

Lipinski Law strives to help landowners navigate life and fight back against insurance companies so that they can focus on recovering from the damage caused by unexpected, disastrous events.  If you need to assert your rights, maintain your property and/or defend yourself against government agency enforcement action, Lipinski Law has the experience to protect your interests and constitutional rights.  Lipinski Law represents landowner-policyholders in insurance coverage disputes over environmental liabilities and property damage, and Lipinski Law helps them develop successful strategies to handle high-stakes insurance coverage, maximize and preserve the value of their insurance assets and defend enforcement actions initiated by a government agency.  In emergencies, our team works at any hour to help clients manage a crisis and get the justice they deserve.  We strive to ensure that our client’s property will be remediated in a timely and cost-effective manner at the expense of their insurance carriers.

We counsel clients on a wide range of insurance matters related to environmental and property damage litigation, including:

• Superfund Litigation
• Cost Recovery and allocation of financial responsibility
• Enforcement actions initiated by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management and Environmental Protection Agency
• Environmental litigation arising from lead paint, oil and produced water spills, creosote, PFAS, Perc, mold, asbestos, chemical spills, landfills, pipeline leaks, leaks from underground/aboveground storage tanks, hazardous waste management and other environmental contamination associated with industrial sites
• Insurance coverage for property damage caused by a storm, tornado, fire, wind, hail, lightning, water

Lipinski has also advised city and town officials and agencies regarding land use, zoning, real estate development, municipal law, as well as negotiated and drafted contracts, ordinances, leases, deeds and resolutions.  He has served as lead counsel for governmental entities, including the State of Indiana, banks and other corporations in all aspects of litigation involving the acquisition, condemnation, sale and disposition of real and personal property, oil, gas and other minerals.  Lipinski represented the State of Indiana in the litigation of all eminent domain matters for the I-69 Highway Construction and Ohio River Bridges Projects.