David P. Rossmiller, Partner

David is a partner in Dunn Carney’s litigation department who specializes in complex commercial litigation, including insurance coverage, intellectual property and environmental contamination cases.

David is a noted insurance coverage expert and has been quoted in dozens of media stories on insurance and legal issues in a variety of publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the New Orleans Times-Picayune and many more.  He also writes the Insurance Coverage Blog, a popular and influential blog on insurance coverage matters and industry developments, at www.insurancecoverageblog.com. 

David's insurance practice includes a broad range of issues: environmental property damage, errors and omissions and professional liability coverage, directors and officers liability, sex abuse coverage, construction defect, business interruption insurance, general commercial liability, first-party commercial property disputes, homeowners and auto, managed care, employer liability and others.

Besides insurance recovery and coverage, David's practice includes extensive litigation of trademark, copyright and patent infringement, unfair competition, trade secrets, and other intellectual property cases, including related matters such as non-compete and confidentiality agreements.  David also has extensive experience in environmental contamination litigation and advice, including litigation under CERCLA and state environmental laws. He has an outstanding record of achieving successful results for his clients.  

Besides his blogging, David writes frequently for publications such as the Appleman 2d treatise, New Appleman on Insurance: Critical Issues; New Appleman Insurance Law Practice Guide, Bloomberg Law Reports: Insurance and others. He is also frequently asked to speak about insurance issues across the country.

Bar Admissions:

• Oregon, 1998
• U.S. District Court of Oregon, 2000
• Washington, 2005

Education:

• The University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1998, J.D., Cum Laude
• Minot State College, Minot, North Dakota, 1984
  B.A., English, Cum Laude

Publications:

• New Appleman Insurance Law Practice Guide, Chapter 19, Applying Attorney-Client and Work-Product Privileges and Chapter 20,  Conducting Discovery, 2007 
• National Underwriter Company: Agent E&O Implications of Nationwide Flood Decision Debated.pdf
• The Oregon Association of Defense Counsel Three Things I Hate about Oregon Insurance Coverage Law: A Policyholder's Perspective August 2007
• New Appleman on Insurance: Current Critical Issues in Insurance Law, Interpretation and Enforcement of Anti-Concurrent Policy Language in Hurricane Katrina Cases and Beyond, Sept. 2007.
• The Business Journal of Portland, "Law firms begin blogging though with mixed results"
• Risk & Insurance Online, "Next Big Katrina Decision," Oct. 2007
• National Journal, "Lawyers Slowly Embrace New Web Technologies"  Oct. 2007
• Bloomberg Law Reports-Insurance Law,  Katrina litigation in the Fifth Circuit Feb. 2007
• LexisNexus Insurance Law Center, "People: Throw Off Your Shackles and Blog!" March 2008
• A.M. Best Podcast on Flood-Related Louisiana Cases, March 2008
• Lexus Nexus, "Katrina in the Fifth Dimension:Hurricane Katrina Cases in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals"
• Oregon Association of Defense Counsel (OADC) Spring 2008 Newsletter, "Have Plain English Laws Made Insurance Policies Less Ambiguous?"

Professional Associations and Memberships:

• Oregon State Bar
• Washington State Bar
• Multnomah Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• Defense Research Institute