Representative Experience
- Lead counsel in numerous cases involving personal injury, wrongful death, catastrophic injury and product liability
- Lead counsel for numerous insurers in cases involving first party and third party bad faith and violation of the Unfair Trade Practices Act, extracontractual disputes and coverage issues
- Lead counsel in numerous professional liability and construction-related cases, including successful defense of architects, engineers, contractors, attorneys and insurance agents
- Lead counsel for numerous businesses and employers in cases involving alleged deliberate intent
- Lead counsel in a statewide project initiated by a major insurance company to defend low impact, soft tissue personal injury cases
- Former assistant solicitor to large municipality and lead counsel for numerous municipalities under the Governmental Tort Claims and Insurance Reform Act
Education
- Denison University, B.A., with honors; Phi Beta Kappa, 1983
- University of Cincinnati College of Law, J.D., 1986
Admissions
- United States Supreme Court
- West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
- Supreme Court of Ohio
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia
- United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio
- West Virginia State Bar
- Ohio State Bar
Affiliations
- Ohio County Bar Association
- Belmont County (Ohio) Bar Association
- West Virginia Bar Association
- Ohio State Bar Association
- Defense Research Institute
- Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia (Board of Governors 1995 - 2001)
- City of Wheeling Police Civil Service Commission
Reported Cases
- Strum v. Swanson, W. Va. Sup. Ct. No. 33285 (Oct. 26, 2007)
- Weller v. American Home Assurance Co., 2007 WL 1097883 (N.D. W. Va.)
- Parkette, Inc. v. Cornerstone Engineering, Inc., 617 S.E.2d 501 (W. Va. 2005)
- Weaver v. Edwin Shaw Hospital, 819 N.E.2d 1079 (Ohio 2004)
- Adams v. Consolidated Rail Corporation, 591 S.E.2d 269 (W. Va. 2003)
- Brown v. City of Wheeling, 569 S.E.2d.197 (W. Va. 2002)
- Trafalgar House Construction, Inc. v. ZMM, Inc., et al., 567 S.E.2d 294 (W. Va. 2002)
- Zelenka v. City of Weirton, 539 S.E.2d 750 (W. Va. 2000)
- Camastro v. City of Wheeling, 49 F. Supp. 2d 500 (N.D. W. Va. 1998)
- Jividen v. Law, 461 S.E.2d 451 (W. Va. 1995)
- Marshall v. Saseen, 450 S.E.2d 791 (W. Va. 1994)
- State ex rel. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Madden, 451 S.E.2d 721 (W. Va. 1994)