David E. Bocan
Experience
- Practice focuses on insurance and reinsurance coverage, insurance subrogation, insurance bad faith law, insurance business and regulatory law and alternative dispute resolution.
Selected Results*
Obtained $5,800,000 settlement for subrogated insurer after winning liability phase of an inverse condemnation trial.
Co-trial counsel in the representation of several foreign and domestic insurance companies in litigation arising from the Olympic pipeline rupture and explosion in Bellingham, Washington. As a result of the unavailability of the pipeline, Atlantic Richfield sustained business interruption and extra expense losses. The litigation involved the resolution of coverage issues with Atlantic Richfield and a subrogation action against the owner and operator of the pipeline. The subrogation case settled for a confidential amount a month before trial was scheduled to begin in federal court in Seattle
Dole Food Company fire at its Yuma, Arizona processing plant.
City of Oakland, California building damage from the 1989 earthquake.
A conspiracy of attorneys in Southern California defrauds insurance companies - millions of dollars recovered from the attorneys involved.
Brought RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) lawsuit against numerous attorneys in Southern California who conspired to defraud insurance companies.
Obtained recoveries for excess insurers in cases involving poor claims handling by primary insurers.
Designated coordinating counsel for earthquake claim litigation for RLI Insurance Company.
Designated coordinating counsel for claims litigation for Allstate Insurance Company’s turbine energy insurance program.
Recognition
- Named a "Super Lawyer" by Law & Politics (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)**
Memberships
- International Bar Association
- American Bar Association (Dispute Resolution, Tort and Insurance Practice, and Litigation Sections)
- Appointed to the American Bar Association Committees of Excess, Surplus Lines and Reinsurance, Property Insurance, Insurance Coverage Litigation and Subcommittees on Insurance Bad Faith and International Insurance
- Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel, (Alternative Dispute Resolution and International Practice and Law Sections)
- International Association for Insurance Law
- Los Angeles County and Century City Bar Associations
Bar Admissions
- California
- Michigan
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, California
- U.S. District Court, Michigan
- U.S. Supreme Court
Selected Speeches
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Business Interruption Losses
Property Loss Research Bureau, Austin, Texas
(November 28-30, 2006)
- Has lectured for numerous insurance-related seminars dealing with issues of insurance bad faith, deposition preparation, personal liability of claims professionals, legal issues of concurrent causation in insurance losses, the role of the forensic accountant in insurance claims investigations, ethical dilemmas in property insurance claims, insurance fraud, subrogation and recovery actions and numerous other topics.
- Has spoken to groups including: The London Insurance Market, California Society of Certified Public Accountants, Annual Insurance Fraud Seminar of the American Insurance Services Group, California Workers' Compensation Institute, Property Claims Association of the Pacific, and Property Claims Association of Sacramento.
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