I have represented individuals and businesses in a variety of personal injury activities including automobile and trucking accidents and fatalities, slip and fall claims, vehicle battery explosions, dram shop claims, injury and complications following surgery, construction accidents, cataract lens implant injuries, animal attacks, and others.

Over the past 47 years of active practice, I have represented countless physicians, chiropractors, dentists, ophthalmologists, engineers, architects, accountants, lawyers, and other professionals in civil suits for professional negligence and/or malpractice, including as involved in products liability matters.

I have experience representing manufacturers in both Federal and state courts for claims of personal injury due to machinery defects and heavy equipment malfunction, as well as claims of design, structural and use defectiveness, breach of warranty and negligence.

I have represented over 50 state, regional, and national insurance companies, rendering insurance coverage opinions and defending coverage and bad faith claims. I still occasionally am asked for coverage opinions.

With my practice for many years primarily focused on insurance defense claims, I have extensive experience reviewing matters to provide coverage opinions or otherwise resolve disputes related to insurance coverage.

I have litigated matters and resolves disputes related to complex contracts and property issues throughout West Virginia.

I have both prepared Wills and other estate documents as well as litigated matters and resolved disputes related to wills and estates for residents of West Virginia.

I defended almost all of the whitewater rafting companies in this State and wrote the release documents used by them from the early 1980’s until the late 1990’s when the insurance carrier which wrote that type of coverage changed.

I have participated in the management of various client businesses and have managed my own businesses for up to 25 years. I understand the challenges and expectations both from the employee and employer perspective, including resolving employee disputes and discharges for myself and clients.