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Daniel M. Taylor, Jr.
Partner
(412) 456-5402 (phone)
(412) 471-1106 (fax)
Pittsburgh, PA Office
DANIEL M. TAYLOR, JR. is a partner in the firm’s Pittsburgh Regional Office. He focuses his practice on tort and insurance litigation, including bad faith, arson and fraud, construction defects, personal injury, UM/UIM, insurance coverage, life and disability claims. He has also recovered millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for subrogating insurers.
Mr. Taylor is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania (1991) and West Virginia (2006). He is also admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He has successfully argued a variety of tort and insurance-related matters in the appellate courts, including the widely-cited Tenos v. State Farm, 716 A.2d 626 (Pa. Super. 1998).
Mr. Taylor serves as Outside General Counsel to the FAIRPlans (statutory residual market mechanisms for property insurance) of Pennsylvania, Delaware and West Virginia.
Mr. Taylor is a member of the Pennsylvania and Allegheny County Bar Associations, the Defense Research Institute, the Pennsylvania Defense Institute and the Pennsylvania Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (PAMIC). He is a frequent lecturer on topics of concern to the Insurance Industry. Mr. Taylor is also a former member of the Pennsylvania State Board of Certified Real Estate Appraisers.
Mr. Taylor received his BA from the University of Pittsburgh and graduated cum laude from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, where he served on the editorial board of the Law Review.
Areas of Practice
Property & Casualty Insurance: Coverage, Arson & Fraud Defense, and Regulatory Compliance
Personal Injury/ Liability/ Auto/ UM/ UIM- Coverage & Defense
Bad Faith
Life & Disability Insurance
Subrogation
Bar Admissions
2006 West Virginia
1991 Pennsylvania
Court Admissions
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
Education
1991
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Cleveland, OH
J.D.
cum laude
Law Review, 1989-1991
1987
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
B.A.
Affiliations
Outside General Counsel: The Insurance Placement Facilities of Pennsylvania and Delaware and the West Virginia Essential Property Insurance Association
Pennsylvania Bar Association
Allegheny County Bar Association
Defense Research Institute
Pennsylvania Defense Institute
Pennsylvania Association of Mutual Insurance Companies
Pennsylvania State Board of Certified Real Estate Appraisers, 1999- 2004
Presentations
Arson Reporting Immunity
Pittsburgh Fire Loss Conference, 1995
Bad Faith: A Two-Way Street?
PAMIC* Claims Seminar, 1997
Adjuster's Role in Developing Subrogation
PAMIC* Small Company Seminar, 1998
Fire Department Claims
PAMIC* Claims Seminar, 2000
Insurance Bad Faith Claims In Pennsylvania
Lorman Industries. 2002, 2005
Proving Subrogation Damages at Trial
National Property Subrogation ExecuSummit, 2007
Representative Clients
The Harleysville Insurance Companies
AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company
The Insurance Placement Facilities of Pennsylvania and Delaware
The West Virginia Essential Property Insurance Association
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
Zurich North America
Representative Matters
Giacco v. The Equitable, 736 A.2d 19 (Pa. Super. 1998)
Ferguson v. Lakeland Mutual, 611 A.2d 883 (Pa. 1992) (on brief for amicus curiae)
Tenos v. State Farm, 716 A.2d 626 (Pa. Super. 1998)
Smith v. Scripto-Tokai Corp., 178 F.Supp.2d 477 and 170 F.Supp.2d 533 (W.D. Pa. 2001)
Borowitz v. 43rd Street Concrete, Verdict Search Pennsylvania, Vol 1, Issues 6, June 2004
Lucas v. Township of Bethel, 137 Fed. Appx. 450, 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 8584 (3d Cir. 2005)
Military
Reserve Components of the United States Army, 1987 - present
Graduate, The Judge Advocate General’s School, Judge Advocate Officer Basic (1996) and Advanced (2000, Commandant’s List) Courses.
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