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| | Address | 2121 North California Boulevard
Suite 320 | | Walnut Creek, California 94596 | | (Contra Costa Co.) | | | |
| | Contact Information | | Phone: 925-933-5800 | Fax: 925-933-5837
URL: http://www.insuredlaw.com | | Visit Our Website | | http://www.lawyers.com/g&elaw |  | | Send Us Email |  |
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| Gumbiner & Eskridge LLP practices in the following areas of law:
Insurance Coverage, Commercial Insurance, Insurance Bad Faith, Life, Disability and Health Insurance, Property Insurance, Automobile Insurance, Real Estate Litigation, Construction Litigation, Inverse Condemnation, Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Commercial Litigation, Employment and Housing Discrimination. | Firm Profile:
Along with a general civil trial practice, the firm is involved with insurance coverage disputes and insurance bad faith litigation representing commercial and individual insureds (business, property, liability, homeowners, health, life and disability). | | Firm Size: 3 | | Joel P. Gumbiner (Member) born Rochester, New York, January 8, 1956; admitted to bar, 1983, California. Education: State University of New York at Buffalo (B.A., Mathematics, 1978; B.A., Music, 1979); University of San Francisco (J.D., with honors, 1983). Recipient: American Jurisprudence Award, 1983; Law Review Comment of the Year Award. Member, McAuliffe Honor Society. Articles Editor, University of San Francisco Law Review, Volume 17, 1982-1983. Author: "Foreign Expropriations Cases in the United States: Conflicting Legislative and Judicial Policies," 17 USF Law Review 117, 1982; "Making Sense of Garvey v. State Farm," and "Home Damage: Third Party Homeowner and Subrogation Actions," {Prolaw, 1990}. Member: Marin, Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco Bar Associations; State Bar of California; San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association; Consumer Attorneys of California. Practice Areas: Insurance Coverage Disputes; Insurance Litigation; Construction Defects; Natural Disaster Related Litigation; Complex Consumer Litigation; Business Litigation. Email: Joel P. Gumbiner | | Jack D. Eskridge (Member) born Los Angeles, California, March 17, 1948; admitted to bar, 1989, California and U.S. District Court, Northern, Southern and Eastern Districts of California. Education: San Francisco State University (B.A., cum laude, 1979); Hastings College of the Law, University of California (J.D., cum laude, 1989). Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award. Associate Editor, Hastings Journal of Communications and Entertainment Law Review. Member: State Bar of California; American Bar Association; Consumer Attorneys of California. Practice Areas: Insurance Bad Faith Law; First and Third Party Insurance; Insurance Coverage; Employment Litigation; Personal Injury; Consumer Litigation. Email: Jack D. Eskridge | | OF COUNSEL | | David W. Rudy (Of Counsel) born Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 10, 1947; admitted to bar, 1974, California; 1982, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Tufts University (A.B., magna cum laude, 1968); University of Chicago (M.A., 1969); University of San Francisco (J.D., magna cum laude, 1974). Member, McAuliffe Honor Society. Author: "Claims and Disputes Under Insurance Policies," Matthew Bender, California Torts, 6:82-1; "Concurrent Causation: Making Sense of the All-Risk Policy," presented to ABA Committee Meeting, March, 1986. Co-Author, "Insurance Bad Faith," CEB, 1985. Adjunct Professor of Law, Insurance Law and Trial Practice, University of San Francisco, 1976-1993. Guest Lecturer: National Association of Independent Insurance Adjusters, 1984; Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California, 1984-1987. President, USF Law Society, 1979-1980. Mediator, American Arbitration Association. Email: David W. Rudy |
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