Current Employment Position(s)

Partner, since 2001

Year Joined Organization: 1994

Lawyer Overview

Stephen P. Brown is a member of the firm’s Insurance Law Practice Group in the Bloomfield Hills Office. His area of specialty is representing insurance companies in complex insurance coverage disputes involving a wide spectrum of issues, including insurance coverage for underlying product liability and environmental contamination claims, among others. He has also represented corporate entities in complex product liability litigation.

Additionally, Mr. Brown has extensive experience in handling bad faith and failure to settle claims on behalf of insurance companies. His insurance coverage practice also includes a number of defense cost disputes where the reasonableness and necessity of defense costs incurred by an insured were at issue.

Mr. Brown has been successful in obtaining summary judgment on a number of key insurance coverage issues and authored numerous coverage opinions for insurance carrier clients on a wide range of topics, including coverage for advertising injury claims, sexual harassment, racial and sexual discrimination, assault and battery, defective products, and claims made/claims reported issues.

The principal author of several Plunkett Cooney national legal compendiums, Mr. Brown has also given carrier-specific presentations and seminars about various insurance coverage issues and topics.

Areas of Practice

• Environmental Law
• Insurance Law
• Product Liability

Bar Admissions

• Michigan, 1993
• U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit

Professional Associations and Memberships

• State Bar of Michigan
• Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriter

Education

• Wayne State University Law School, Detroit, Michigan, 1993
  J.D.
• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1990
  B.A.
  Major: Political Science

Published Works

• The Wayne Law Review; Insurance Law, Vol. 49. No. 2, 2003

Address

38505 Woodward Ave.
Suite 2000
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304

Phones

(248) 594-6304

Faxes

(248) 901-4040

Emails

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Websites

http://www.plunkettcooney.com/