David R. Lane - Senior Partner For more than 25 years, Mr. Lane has focused his practice on complex primary, excess and umbrella liability and first party property insurance coverage disputes. From this background, he routinely consults on and litigates coverage questions in the context of a broad array of property, construction defect, employment practices liability, intellectual property, environmental and employee welfare benefits claims. With experience as an insurance claim professional, as a counselor and as a litigator, Mr. Lane has lectured on issues cutting across all lines of insurance products and services vital to the interests of commercial insurers, joint power authorities, individuals and businesses alike.

Mr. Lane has also handled a number of insurance coverage appeals, including matters raising issues as diverse as patent infringement; advertising injury; complex multi-carrier contribution; unfair competition; Business and Professions code Section 17200, et seq; environmental contamination; and “claims-made” coverage provisions.

Education
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law – J.D., 1978
University of California, Davis – A.B., 1972

Bar/Court Admissions
Admitted to U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, 1995
Admitted to U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 1983
Admitted to U.S. District court, Eastern District of California, 1978
Admitted to California State Bar, 1978

Practice Areas
Insurance Coverage
Insurance Litigation
Good Faith/Bad Faith
ERISA/Employee Welfare Benefits Claims

Ratings/Associations
AV, Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
American Bar Association (Member, Tort, Trial and Insurance Practice Section: Vice Chair, TIPS Property Insurance Law Committee (1997-2001); Editor, TIPS Property Insurance Law Committee Newsletter (1997-2000)
California Bar Association
Sacramento County Bar Association

Articles and Presentations
Speaker, “Special Challenges and Changes in the Insurance Market,” Northern California
Construction Financial Management Association Conference (2007)
Speaker, “Avian Flu Pandemic: What is a Business to Do?” ABD Business Recovery
Seminar Series: Avian Flu Pandemic – What If? (2006)
Speaker, “The Comprehensive Commercial Insurance Program: Structure, Issues, Risk Management and Reinsurance Considerations,” Insurance Education Association, Advanced Issues in Workers’ Compensation (2005)
Co-Author, “Recent Developments in Property Insurance Law,” 34 Tort & Insurance Law Journal, No. 2 (1999)

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