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John M. Hagan
John M. Hagan

John M. Hagan

Partner
Pittsburgh
+1.412.355.6770
Email John M. Hagan @ john.hagan@klgates.com
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John Hagan is a policyholder insurance recovery lawyer who leads coverage litigation and counseling for energy, utility, and manufacturing clients nationwide. He handles environmental insurance coverage, asbestos coverage litigation, first-party property, and business interruption claims, including lost policy discovery, allocation issues, and insurance bad faith disputes. John also structures coverage-in-place (CIP) agreements. He has secured eight- and nine-figure policyholder recoveries through coverage litigation and CIP agreements. John also counsels policyholders on insurer insolvency strategies, recovering proceeds from carriers in liquidation or rehabilitation.

John is also an assistant general counsel for the firm; he serves on the firm’s AI Solutions Group.

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

John joined K&L Gates in 2005.

  • Recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® for Commercial Litigation in Pittsburgh, 2025

  • Serves on the Board of Directors of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pittsburgh.
  • Previously sat on the Board of Directors of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh, and he also served as a “Big Brother” with that organization.
  • Participated in Leadership Pittsburgh's Leadership Development Initiative XXII.
  • “Insurance Coverage for Coal Combustion Residual Costs,” Energy, Utility & Environment Conference, 6 October 2022
  • “Bad Faith Claims,” Insurance Coverage Training Series. September 2, 2009
  • “Location, Location, Location: Strategic Considerations for Selection of Forum,” Insurance Coverage Training Series. March 13, 2009
Additional Thought Leadership Pages
  • “ESG — what directors and officers need to know about insurance,” Reuters Legal News, 29 July 2022
  • Pennsylvania’s Trigger of Coverage for Continuous Property Damage Liabilities: Confirming the “Continuous Trigger” for Latent Environmental Claims, 53 Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal 103 (Fall 2017).
  • “Coverage Options for Employee Asbestos Claims,” 40 Employee Relations Law Journal No. 4, at 9 (Spring 2015).
  • “Considerations On Earthquake Coverage in Calif.,” Law360, John M. Hagan and Ngofeen Mputubwele. October 9, 2014.
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