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David S. Evinger


Practice Groups

Experience

  • Represents insurers, businesses and individuals in catastrophic losses such as fires, explosions and collapses.
  • Represents insurers in national and international property and energy coverage and loss measurement matters, crime and fidelity coverage matters, and comprehensive general liability coverage matters.
  • Represents businesses in national and international contract disputes.
  • Represents architects and engineers in "sick building syndrome" cases and other construction matters.
  • Serves as co-chair of Firm's Investigation department.
  • Reinsurance

Other Experience

  • Minnesota qualified arbitrator and mediator.

Selected Results*

Represented 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.

Represented foreign businesses and foreign and domestic insurers in an international arbitration under ICC Rules involving the collapse of a large OSB press and a resulting fire. 

Represented excess liability insurers by monitoring the underlying defense of multi-million dollar claims arising out of large fires and explosions.

Represented multiple foreign and domestic insurers and businesses in a multi-million dollar recovery for losses arising out of the Americold underground warehouse fire in Kansas City, Kansas.

Represented foreign insurer and domestic business in a multi-million dollar recovery for losses arising out of an agribusiness fire in Nebraska.

Represented insurers in several multi-million dollar international crime & fidelity coverage matters.

Represented insurers in national comprehensive general liability coverage matters.

Represented a large international architectural firm in "Sick Building Syndrome" case involving DuPage County Government Center in Illinois.

Represented large food wholesaler and distributor in claims arising out of alleged e-coli contamination.

Memberships

  • American Bar Association (Property Section)
  • Minnesota State Bar Association
  • Hennepin County Bar Association
  • North Dakota Bar Association
  • Principal Member on the NFPA 921 Technical Committee, Guide for Fire and Explosion Investigations
  • International Association of Arson Investigators (Attorney Advisory Committee)
  • Federation of Defense and Corporate Council

Civic Associations

  • Catholic Charities, Board of Directors
  • St. Joseph's Home for Children, Advisory Committee

Bar Admissions

  • Minnesota
  • North Dakota
  • Pro Hac Vice Admissions in over 30 Jurisdictions
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, Minnesota

Education

  • University of Notre Dame Law School, J.D. (1979)
  • Jamestown College, B.A., summa cum laude

Books and Articles

Selected Speeches

    • Considerations for Fire and Explosion Subrogation Cases
      London Underwriting Center, London, England (March 2007)

    * Past results are reported to provide the reader with an indication of the type of litigation in which we practice and do not and should not be construed to create an expectation of result in any other case as all cases are dependent upon their own unique fact situation and applicable law.

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