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Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Insurance; Products Liability; Premises Liability; Labor and Employment

Additional Information: West Virginia State Bar; Kanawha County and American Bar Associations; Defense Research Institute; West Virginia Defense Trial Counsel; St. Thomas More Society.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia State of West Virginia ex rel the Affiliated Construction Trades Foundation, a Division of the West Virginia Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO, and All Those Similarly Situated, Petitioner v. William F. Vieweg, Commissioner, Bureau of Employment Programs and Compensation Programs Performance Council 205 W.Va. 687, 520 S.E.2d 854 Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia; Tim Mumaw, Administrator for the Estate of Edward Mumaw, Deceased v. U.S. Silica Company, a Corporation 204 W.Va. 6, 511 S.E.2d 117 Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia; Jerry Harris and Nora Harris v. Martinka Coal Company 201 W.Va. 578, 499 S.E.2d 307 United States District Court, S.D. West Virginia; United States of America v. Christopher Jarrett Bailey 886 F. Supp 7 Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia; Eric Calvin Cecil and Esther M. Cecil v. D and M Incorporated, a West Virginia Corporation; J.H. Fletcher & Co., the Successor of D and M Incorporated; and Service Machine Company, a West Virginia Corporation, d/b/a SMC Electrical Products, Inc. 205 W.Va. 162, 517 S.E.2d 27 Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia; Sidney Hager and Sandra Hager, his Wife and Attorney-in-Fact; Joshua C. Parks, an Infant Under the Age of Eighteen Years Who Sues By His Guardian, Father and Next Friend, Ronny L. Parks, and Ronny L. Parks; and Holley Beth Myers, an Infant Under the Age of Eighteen Years Who Sues By Her Guardian, Mother and Next Friend, Cynthia Phillips and Cynthia Phillips, v. James Marshall v. The Equitable Insurance Company, a Foreign Corporation; Equitable Variable Life Insurance Company (EVLICO), a Subsidiary of the Equitable; Equico Securities, Inc., a Subsidiary of the Equitable Insurance Company; and Joe V. Funderbunk v. Pacific Fidelity Insurance Company, General Services Life Insurance Company, Kennesaw Life & Accident Insurance Company, Old Colony Life Insurance Company, Anchor Brokerage Centre, Inc., Aegon USA, Bankers United Life Assurance Company, and Aetna Life Insurance and Annuity Company 202 W.Va. 577, 505 S.E.2d 640 Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia; Harold Frank McBee and Paulbera McBee v. U.S. Silica Company, a Delaware Corporation 205 W.Va. 211, 517 S.E.2d 308, 1999 WL 425943, W.Va., June 24, 1999 Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia; Wanda Sue Bower, Patricia E. Hawkins, Bobbie Jo Hardesty, Tom Jay Hardesty, Kent Norman Huffman, and Brenda Kay Spencer v. Westinghouse Electric Corporation, a Pennsylvania corporation, and North American Philips Corporation, a Delaware corporation 206 W.Va. 133, 522 S.E.2d 424, 1999 WL 518926, 49 ERC 1587, W.Va., July 19, 1999 Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia In Re: Flood Litigation 216 W.Va. 534, 607 S.E.2d 863, 2004 WL 2937227, W.Va., December 9, 2004.