Eisenberg Gilchrist & Cutt

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• Eisenberg & Gilchrist

Law Firm Overview

Our firm is dedicated to representing those people who have suffered a personal injury or wrongful death related to ski accidents, automobile/truck accidents, pharmaceutical injury, medical malpractice, product liability, negligence, insurance bad faith, nursing home abuse, toxic tort litigation, and brain injuries of any kind.

Areas of Practice

• Bad Faith Insurance
• Class Actions -- Plaintiff
• Nursing Home
• Litigation & Appeals
• Personal Injury -- Plaintiff
• Motor Vehicle Accidents -- Plaintiff
• Products Liability Law
• Professional Malpractice Law
• Legal Malpractice
• Medical Malpractice
• Toxic Torts

Honors and Awards

• Jeffrey D. Eisenberg: Brain Injury Association of Utah, Lifetime Achievement Award, 1998
• Jeffrey D. Eisenberg: Outstanding Service Award, Utah Trial Lawyers Association, 2000

Published Works

• "Will the Real Employer Please Stand Up: An Analysis of Workers' Compensation Immnuity Under Utah Law", Utah Trial Journal, Dec., 1999
• "Allen v. Minnstar: Strict Liability's Quiet Assassin?", Utah Trial Journal, April, 1998
• "Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael: Reining in Experts in a High Tech Age", Utah Trial Journal, Spring, 1999
• "The Brain Injury Case With Psychological Overtones", Utah Trial Journel, Summer, 2000
• "Asbestos Litigation: A Practical Introduction", Utah Trial Journal, Spring, 2001

Classes and Seminars

• Plaintiff's Injury Case: Peaks and Pitfalls, 2000 - Present
• UTLA Annual Head Injury Seminar, 2000
• Premises Liability: Preparations and Trial of Difficult Case in Utah, 1993
• UTLA Blast-off Into the Courtroom, 1993
• UTLA Mock Trial, 1992

Representative Cases

• Zollman v. High Country Snowmobile Tours, 797 F.Supp. 923 (D. Utah 1992)
• Krauss v. Utah Department of Transportation, 852 P2d 1014 (Utah 1993)
• Misener v. General Motors, 924 F.Supp. 430 (D. Utah 1996)
• Misener v. General Motors, 165 FRD 105 (D. Utah 1996)
• Freud v. Utah Power and Light, 625 F.Supp. 2727 (D. Utah 1985)
• Freud v. Utah Power and Light, 793 P2d 362 (Utah 1990)
• Johnson v. Matlock, 771 F2d 1432 (10th Cir. 1985)
• Parry v. Ernest Home Centers Corp., 779 P2d 659 (Utah 1989)
• Brown v. Washington Blvd. Associates, 856 P.2d 352 (Utah 1993)
• Mitchell v. Rice, 885 P2d 820 (Utah App. 1994)
• Interwest Aviation v. County Board of Equalization of Salt Lake County, 743 P.2d 1222 (Utah 1987)
• Thatcher Enterprises v. Cache County Corp., 902 F2d 1472 (10th Cir. 1990)
• Viking Ins. Co. of Wisc. v. Coleman, 927 P.2d 661 (Utah 1996)

West Practice Categories

Bad Faith Insurance, Class Actions -- Plaintiff, Nursing Home, Litigation & Appeals, Personal Injury -- Plaintiff, Motor Vehicle Accidents -- Plaintiff, Products Liability Law, Professional Malpractice Law, Legal Malpractice, Medical Malpractice, Toxic Torts