Patrick E. Shipstead
Experience
Practice focuses on insurance and business litigation in the fields of large-scale subrogation, coverage, and insurance policy disputes.
- Trial or litigation resolution of cases in the following areas:
First party coverage disputes -- primarily involving commercial or industrial property policies;
- Bad faith cases involving various kinds of coverage;
Construction disputes
Building composition disputes: asbestos, lead paint, weld quality, curtain wall defects, foundational or site preparation, etc.;
Fire and explosion;
- Flood and land damage;
- Commercial torts -- Antitrust, RICO, fraud and misrepresentation, contract disputes (U.C.C. and otherwise), warranty claims;
Environmental - underground tanks, contamination leaks and spills, water pollution, indoor contamination;
Machinery defect cases involving boilers, pressure vessels, turbo generators, co-generation equipment, various production machinery;
- Various personal injury disputes.
CLE lectures to Orange County Bar Association members on various insurance and litigation issues.
- Seminars for the Property Loss Research Bureau.
- Seminars for various businesses in the insurance, accounting and engineering industries, as well as the Tort and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association and various California legal education groups.
Outside Experience
- Founding Chairman of the Insurance Section of the Orange County Bar Association
Selected Results*
Irvine Company v. Chubb Group: $75 million asbestos removal claim (plus claims for bad faith and punitive damages) by the Irvine Company against Chubb Group Company, Federal Insurance Company. Obtained summary judgment on behalf of Chubb/Federal in Federal Court (Central District California).
Irvine Co. V. Chubb Group: $25 million structural defect claim (plus claims for bad faith and punitive damages) by the Irvine Company against Chubb Group Company, Federal Insurance Company. Obtained directed verdict for Chubb/Federal after extended presentation of Irvine case in Federal Court (Central District California).
$25 million structural defect claim (plus claims for bad faith and punitive damages) by the Irvine Company against Chubb Group Company, Federal Insurance Company. Obtained directed verdict for Chubb/Federal after extended presentation of Irvine case in Federal Court (Central District California).
Asarco v. Allendale Insurance Company: $75 million claim dispute relating to flooding of an open pit copper mine in Arizona. Case tried to a jury verdict in favor of Allendale in Federal Court (District of Arizona).
Memberships
- Minnesota State Bar Association
- State Bar of California
- Orange County Bar Association, Founding Chairman of the Insurance Section
Civic Associations
- California Insurance Council for City of Hope
- Harvard University Alumni Association
- University of Michigan Law School Alumni Association
Bar Admissions
- California
- Minnesota
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Arizona
- U.S. District Court, Central District of California
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California
- U.S. District Court, Minnesota
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of California
Education
- University of Michigan Law School, cum laude (1976)
- Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University
- Harvard College, cum laude