Joseph M. Andrews
Partner
Email: andrews@earthlink.net

Practice Areas: Insurance Bad Faith; Toxic Torts; Business Torts; Products Liability; Professional Malpractice; False Claims Act.

Admitted: 1978, California and U.S. District Court, Northern District of California; 1979, U.S. District Court, Central District of California; 1988, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1989, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of California; 2002, Oregon

Law School: Hastings College of the Law, University of California, J.D., 1978

College: University of California at Riverside, B.A., cum laude, 1973

Member: Los Angeles County Bar Association (Member, Litigation Section); State Bar of California; State Bar of Oregon; American Board of Trial Advocates (Associate Member); American Association for Justice (Member Sections on Insurance and Toxic Torts); Consumer Attorneys of California; Consumer Attorneys of Los Angeles.

Biography: Research Editor, Hastings Law Journal, 1977-1978. Adjunct Professor, University of Laverne College of Law, 1988-1990.

Reported Cases: Fitch v. Select Products Co., 36 Cal.4th 812 (2005); Moore v. California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 275 F.3d 838 (9th Cir. 2002); Wisden v. Superior Court (Sims), 124 Cal.App.4th 750 (2004); Watts v. Farmers Ins. Exchange, 98 Cal.App.4th 1246 (2002); Waschek v. State of California, 59 Cal.App.4th 640 (1997); Employers Reinsurance Corp. v. Phoenix Insurance Co., 186 Cal. App.3d 545 (1986); Kane, Kane & Kritzer v. Altagen, 107 Cal.App.3d 36 (1980).

Born: Lafayette, Indiana, June 5, 1951

ISLN: 909421845