I have decades of experience mediating wrongful death and personal injury claims. Before I became a full time mediator, I spent more than 25 years as a trial lawyer, I represented the estates of persons who had died as the result of the negligence of others. I also represented individuals injured in car crashes, injured by defective products and by professional negligence/malpractice and by a myriad of other negligent acts. Importantly, these cases almost always involved insurance. My experience as a litigator and then a mediator makes me eminently qualified to now help you resolve these often complicated and difficult cases.
In 2004 and again in 2005, Florida was hit by major hurricanes that resulted in more than 1.5 million total insurance claims. As a result, the State of Florida looked to the non-profit Collins Center for Public Policy to develop a mediation program to give homeowners, condominium associations, commercial property owners and the insurance industry a process that would help resolve tens of thousands disputed claims. I was selected to join the Collins Center panel of mediators and mediated more than 500 claims throughout Florida. Those claims involved complex insurance issues, claim adjusting disputes and powerful emotions. Despite the inherent difficulties, the program had a settlement rate of nearly 90%. I am a certified umpire for the Windstorm Insurance Network.
I have served on the National Panel of Mediators In re: The Prudential Insurance Company of America Sales Practices Litigation, Class Action ADR Process, another program administered in Florida by the Collins Center. I have also mediated a significant number of insurance bad faith claims.