Our practice area extends throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in addition to West Virginia and Eastern Ohio. Our firm represents major commercial insurance carriers and their insureds in addition to a number of private corporations. Our practice entails the full spectrum of commercial litigation, family law, employment practices litigation, and workers' compensation claims.
Walsh, Barnes & Zumpella, P.C. routinely defends wrongful death, bodily injury and property damage cases arising out of major industrial and construction accidents, catastrophic fire losses, tractor-trailer/automobile accidents, premises and products liability. We are also experienced in employment liability, Directors & Officers liability and all insurance coverage matters.
Walsh, Barnes & Zumpella, P.C. routinely defends wrongful death, bodily injury and property damage cases arising out of major industrial and construction accidents, catastrophic fire losses, tractor-trailer/automobile accidents, premises and products liability. We are also experienced in employment liability, Directors & Officers liability and all insurance coverage matters.
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Walsh, Barnes & Zumpella, P.C. represents insurance carriers, their insureds, and private corporations in actions encompassing the entire civil litigation spectrum. Paul J. Walsh III chairs our civil litigation practice.
We provide coverage opinions for first-party and third-party claims, including analysis of homeowner, personal and commercial auto, commercial property, commercial general liability, personal and commercial umbrella liability and Directors & Officers liability policies.We routinely litigate declaratory judgment actions involving insurance coverage matters in state and federal courts in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio.
We provide coverage opinions for first-party and third-party claims, including analysis of homeowner, personal and commercial auto, commercial property, commercial general liability, personal and commercial umbrella liability and Directors & Officers liability policies.We routinely litigate declaratory judgment actions involving insurance coverage matters in state and federal courts in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio.
This three-week trial involved 29 different Plaintiffs with claims for property damages totaling $5.3 million in addition to punitive damages. Our client, a tenant, was a chemical milling company. The theories of liability included negligence, violations of the Hazardous Material Emergency Planning and Response Act (pertaining to chemical release and damage to fire equipment), strict liability; and punitive damages.
Fire in strip mall causes $15 million in property damage and allegedly causes psychological injuries. This catastrophic fire broke out while customers and employees were inside the department store. The fire spread quickly, engulfing the building within minutes of its discovery and destroying the 75,000square-foot store.
This wrongful death case occurred when the Plaintiff-decedent was operating a steel dust separator. A skip hoist lifted steel drums filled with highly explosive steel dust 40 feet above ground and then dumped the dust from the drums into a machine separating the smaller steel dust particles from the larger particles.
A declaratory judgment action was filed by the insurance carrier seeking to disclaim coverage to the girlfriend of the insured. It was the position of the carrier that no coverage was afforded to the girlfriend because she took the vehicle without the insured's permission. The jury returned a verdict finding that the girlfriend was not a permissive user of the vehicle and thus, the carrier was not obligated to provide insurance coverage.
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