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Lawyer Overview

Areas of Practice

• Plaintiffs' Jury Trial Practice
• Securities Litigation
• Bad Faith Insurance Company Litigation
• Toxic Tort Class Actions
• Serious Personal Injury
• Wrongful Death Actions

Representative Cases

• Midland Funding, LLC v. Brent, --- F.2d ---, 2009 WL 3437243 (U.S. Dist. Ct. for N.D. Ohio 2009)
• Safeco Ins. Co. of Amer. v. White, 122 Ohio St.3d 562, 2009-Ohio-3718 (Ohio 2009)
• Ruta v. Breckenridge-Remy Co., 430 N.E.2d 935 (Ohio 1982)
• Bolling v. Clevepak Corp., 484 N.E.2d 1367 (Ohio App. 6 Dist. 1984)
• Phung v. Waste Management, Inc., 491 N.E.2d 1114 (Ohio 1986)
• Armstrong v. Marathon Oil Co., 513 N.E.2d 776 (Ohio 1987)
• Warner v. Waste Management, Inc., 521 N.E.2d 1091 (Ohio 1988)
• Phung v. Waste Management, 71 Ohio St.3d 408 (Ohio 1994)
• Zappo v. Homestead Insurance Company, 71 Ohio St.3d 552 (Ohio 1994)
• Leber v. Smith, 70 Ohio St.3d 548 (Ohio 1994)
• Borsick V. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co., 68 Ohio St.3d 1221 (Ohio 1994)
• Cope v. Metro Life Ins. Co., 82 Ohio St.3d 426 (Ohio 1998)
• Della Bovi v. Pacific Indemn. Co., 85 Ohio St.3d 343 (Ohio 1999)
• Polikoff v. Adam, 67 Ohio St.3d 100 (Ohio 1993)
• Borsick v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co, 68 Ohio St.3d 81 (Ohio 1993)
• Motorist Mut. Ins. Co. v. Said, 63 Ohio St.3d 690 (Ohio 1992)
• Stepak v. Schey, 51 Ohio St.3d 8 (Ohio 1990)
• State, ex. Rel. Ohio Co. v. Maschari, 51 Ohio St.3d 18 (Ohio 1990)
• Crosby v. Beam, 47 Ohio St.3d 105 (Ohio 1989)
• Miller v. Wikel Mfg. Co., Inc., 46 Ohio St.3d 76 (Ohio 1989)
• Digital v. Analog Design Corp. v. North Supply Co., 44 Ohio St.3d 36 (Ohio 1989)
• Warner v. Waste Management, Inc., 36 Ohio St.3d 91 (Ohio 1988)
• Carney v. McAfee, 35 Ohio St.3d 52 (Ohio 1988)
• Armstrong v. Marathon Oil Co., 32 Ohio St.3d 397 (Ohio 1987)
• Phung v. Waste Management, Inc., 23 Ohio St.3d 100 (Ohio 1986)
• Yeager v. Local Union 20, 6 Ohio St.3d 369 (Ohio 1983)
• Ruta v. Breckenridge-Remy Co., 69 Ohio St.2d 140 (Ohio 1982)
• Roberts v. United States Fid. & Guar. Co., 75 Ohio St.3d 630 (Ohio 1996)
• Weston v. Weston Paper & Meg. Co., 74 Ohio St.3d 377 (Ohio 1996)
• McConocha v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield Mut. Of Ohio, 930 F. Supp 1182 (N.D.Ohio 1996)
• Dowling v. Narragansett Capital Corp., 735 F.Supp. 1105 (DRI 1990)

West Practice Categories

Bad Faith Insurance, Banking & Finance Law, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Secured Transactions, Class Actions -- Plaintiff, Wage & Hour Laws -- Employee, Nursing Home, Insurance Law, Bad Faith, Wage & Hour Laws, Litigation & Appeals, Class Actions, Complex Litigation, Federal Trial Practice, State Trial Practice, Personal Injury -- Plaintiff, Aviation Accidents -- Plaintiff, Motor Vehicle Accidents -- Plaintiff, Railroad Accidents -- Plaintiff, Wrongful Death -- Plaintiff, Securities Law, Toxic Torts

Bar Admissions

• Michigan, 1963
• Ohio, 1964
• Florida, 1967
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Ohio, 1971
• U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit, 1968
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1971

Certification/Specialties

• Certified Public Accountant

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Supreme Court of Ohio, 1983 - 1988 (Bar Examiner)
• Supreme Court of Ohio, Unauthorized Practice of Law, 1989 - 1992 (Board of Commissioners)
• Erie County Bar Association, 1983 - 1984 (President)
• Ohio State Bar Association (Member)
• State Bar of Michigan (Member)
• The Florida Bar (Member)
• The American Association for Justice, f/k/a ATLA (Member)
• The Ohio Association for Justice, f/k/a OATL (Member)
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (Member)
• Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants (Member)

Education

• The University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1963
  J.D.
• College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1961
  B.S.

Offers Free Initial Consultation

Accepts Credit Cards

Published Works

• Corporate Constituencies: Whose Corporation is it Anyway? The Corporate Analyst, February, 1989
• Bad Faith Litigation: Plaintiff's Viewpoint, Prosecuting Major Insurance Bad Faith Claims, 1989
• The Unconstitutionality of Sovereign Immunity in Ohio: Last Stand for the Illegitimate King, 18 University of Toledo Law Review 77, 1987

Address

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Sandusky, OH 44870-2517

Phones

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(419) 624-3000 (Local)

Faxes

(419) 624-0707

Emails

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Websites

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