4750 US Steel Tower
600 Grant Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
| Phone: | (412) 232-9800 | | Fax: | (412) 471-1106 |
OFFICE HISTORY
Swartz Campbell’s Pittsburgh office began with three lawyers in October of 2002. It has since grown to 22 lawyers and is now Swartz Campbell’s largest branch office. This dynamic growth led to the office being featured in the February 13, 2006 Business Profiles section of Forbes Magazine.
Since October of 2004, the Pittsburgh office has been located in one of Pittsburgh’s premier locations, the U.S. Steel Tower in downtown Pittsburgh. This central location allows easy access to Allegheny County civil and criminal courts, Federal Bankruptcy Court as well as the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
AREAS OF PRACTICE AND EXPERTISE
The attorneys in Swartz Campbell’s Pittsburgh office have a wide range of areas of practice and expertise. The focus is on Civil Litigation particularly, personal injury, products liability, toxic tort, environmental law, insurance coverage and bad faith litigation, medical malpractice, construction litigation, premises liability, subrogation, silica and asbestos litigation as well as workers compensation. Four attorneys in the Pittsburgh office were recognized in 2007 by the publishers of Philadelphia magazine and the Pennsylvania edition of Super Lawyers magazine as being among the top 5 percent of practitioners in their practice specialty within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Several attorneys in the Pittsburgh office act as national coordinating counsel for multi-national corporations. In this role, they are directly involved in the litigation as well as providing direction and supervision of local counsel throughout the country. Through their efforts, a consistent, systematic and cost effective defense is provided to their clients throughout the country.
REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS
- Fairmount Minerals, Ltd.
- Travelers Insurance Companies
- Honeywell, Inc.
- Nationwide Insurance Companies
- Cooper Industries
- Parmelee Industries
- Badger Mining Corporation
- Anthony Crane Rental, L.P.
- John Deklewa & Sons, Inc.
- Hartford Insurance Company
- Scottsdale Insurance Company
- Zurich North America
- Harleysville Insurance Companies
- Peachtree Settlement Funding
- The West Virginia Essential Property Insurance Association
- The Insurance Placement Facilities of Pennsylvania and Delaware
- AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company
- The Hartford
- AIG Insurance Companies
- State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
- Robinson, et al. v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co., No. 289 W.D. Allocatur Docket 1999, Opinion at 1999 PA Super. A50014
- Lucas v. Township of Bethel, 137 Fed. Appx. 450, 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 8584 Cir. 2005)
- Borowitz v. 43rd Street Concrete, Verdict Search Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, issue June 2004
- Baldwin v. Badger Minning Corporation, 668 N.W.2d 737 (WIS. App. 2003)
- Gray v. Badger Mining Corporation, 676 N.W.2d 268 (MN 2004)
- Niesen v. Hines, 539 Pa. 516, 653 A.2d 634 (1995)
- Dempster v. Waste Management Inc., 41. Pa. D. & C. 4th 401 (1998), aff’d, 736 A.2d 687 (Pa. Super. 1999), appeal denied, 559 Pa. 666, 739 A.2d 166 (Pa. 1999), cert. denied, 548 U.S. 872 (1999).
- Jeffrey J. Sikirica, as Trustee of Pittsburgh Beauty Academy, Inc. v. Nationwide Insurance Co, 416 F.3rd 214 (3rd Circuit 2005).
- Haase v. Badger Mining Corporation, 682 NW 2nd 389 (Sup. Ct. Wisc. 2004).
- Coyne Textile v. WCAB (Voorhis), 840 A.2d 372 (Pa. Commw. 2003)
- Associate Plumbing & Heating v. WCAB (Hartzog), 560 A.2d 865 (Pa. Commw. 1989)
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