Current Employment Position(s)

Associate

Year Joined Organization: 2005

Lawyer Overview

Robert counsels and represents domestic and international insurance companies on complex claims, coverage disputes, and litigation involving a variety of insurance policies including, directors and officers liability, errors and omissions, commercial general liability, political liability, and professional indemnity, which have been issued on primary, excess, and umbrella bases.  Robert also has experience with the drafting of, and disputes involving, manuscript policy wording, specialty policies, and also with reinsurance claims and issues. 

In addition, Robert 's recent experiences include representing insurers' interests in claims and litigation seeking coverage for securities fraud claims against directors and officers of a bankrupt subprime market lender, criminal indictments filed against directors and officers, securities fraud claims against a corporation and its directors and officers arising out of the artificial inflation of common stock prices, national healthcare providers in class action lawsuits brought by healthcare providers, toxic tort class actions involving welding fume exposure, construction defects, product recall, errors and omissions by architects and engineers, and business liability arising out of employment-related practices.  Robert also has extensive experience in investigating, managing, and monitoring claims that originated in Australia, British Columbia, Europe, Malaysia, South America, and the United States and which have been submitted for coverage under master/world-wide programs issued to large domestic and international insureds.

Areas of Practice

• Insurance Coverage

Representative Cases

• Alert Motor Freight, Inc. v. United States Liability Ins. Group ("Mount Vernon Fire Insurance Company"), 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2710 (E.D. Pa.)
• S & H Hardware & Supply Co. v. Yellow Transportation, Inc., 2004 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 13158 (E.D.Pa.)
• ALIG v. Standard Security Life Ins. Co., et al, No. 02158 (CCP Phila., Jan. Term 2006)

West Practice Categories

Insurance Law

Bar Admissions

• Pennsylvania, 1993
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1995
• U.S. District Court Middle District of Pennsylvania, 2004

Past Employment Positions

• Janssen, Keenan & Ciardi, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, Associate, 2003 - 2004
• Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, Associate, 1997 - 2003
• Law Offices of David Oh, Philadelphia, PA, Associate, 1995 - 1997
• Court of Common Pleas, Lehigh County, Allentown, PA, Appointed Counsel, 1994 - 1995

Education

• Temple University School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1993
  J.D.
  
  Law Journal: Temple Environmental Law & Technology Journal, Staff Member
• University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 1988
  B.A.

Published Works

• A 'Vexatious, Obdurate, Bad Faith' Insured, Pennsylvania Law Weekly, March 13, 2006
• The Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure Catch Up With The Times And Assimilate Electronically Stored Information Into The Rules That Apply To And Govern The Discovery Of "Relevant Information", Defense Digest, Vol. 12, No. 4, December, 2006

Address

1845 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103-4797

Phones

(215) 575-2792

Faxes

(215) 575-0856

Emails

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Websites

http://www.marshalldennehey.com