• Subrogation
• Product Liability
• Fire Litigation
• Business Litigation
• Consumer Fraud

• Has assisted numerous insurance companies in recovering millions of dollars in subrogation actions in state and federal courts involving fire losses, defective products and machinery, breaches of warranty and contract, improper construction, fire suppression systems, negligence and carrier liability.
• Extensive experience in assisting insurance companies with site investigations to determine the origin and cause of large fire and other losses, including the retention of experts and coordinating multi-party investigations.
• Extensive experience in state and federal courts in all aspects of business litigation including breach of contract, unfair competition, trade secrets, fraud, tortious interference with business relationships, non-competition covenants, fiduciary duty issues, RICO claims, shareholder suits and general tort litigation.
• Experience in class action lawsuits, including the defense of nationally known manufacturer of nutritional supplements in three purported class actions involving allegations of consumer fraud.
• Completed 20 hours of tested training in basic fire investigation at the Institute for Fire Sciences, May 2005.
• Attended the International Symposium on Fire Investigation in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 2006.
• Frequent speaker on use of experts in litigation and loss site inspections and spoliation issues.
• Clerk, Judge Carl B. Rubin, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio.

AV Rated - Martindale-Hubbell

Presentations
“How NEPA 291 is Impacting Fire Related Subrogation – How You and Your Attorneys Should be Using it Both Offensively and Defensively,” National Property Subrogation Strategies ExecuSummit, Atlantic City, NJ (April 2008)

"Impact of Daubert Upon the Subrogation of Fire Losses," ExecuSummit, Property Subrogation Program, New York, NY (April 2007)

Ohio Public Agency Arson Network Training Seminar, Presenter on Daubert Challenges and Courtroom Testimony for Fire Investigators, Middleburg Heights, Ohio (March 2007)

"Closing Argument," NASP Litigation Skills Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada (March 2007)

"Subrogation Ethics," NASP Conference, Orlando, Florida (November 2006)

"Update on Daubert Challenges to Fire Investigators," NASP Chapter Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio (September 2006)

"Daubert, Ohio Rule of Evidence 702 and Fire Investigators," Ohio State Fire Marshall's Judges and Prosecutors Seminar, Mentor, Ohio (December 2005)

Panel Discussion on the Attorney Client Relationship in Large Loss Property Cases, NASP Conference, Austin, Texas (November 2005)

"Preventing Spoliation of Evidence," NASP Chapter Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio (February 2004)

"Handling Fire Suppression System Losses," NASP Conference, Reno, Nevada (November 2003)

"Care, Selection and Feeding of Expert Witnesses," NASP Conference, Reno, Nevada (November 2001)

"Cross Examining Expert Witnesses," Cleveland Bar Association (April 2000)