A Partner at Butler, Fay E. Ryan devotes her Tampa practice to third-party coverage and extra-contractual matters. Within these practice areas, her numerous claims deal with construction defects, auto accidents, slip-and-falls, product liability, defamation, and more. Fay has experience analyzing virtually all types of liability policies, including CGL, Excess and Umbrella, OCIP, Commercial Auto, Personal Lines, E & O, Environmental, and Reinsurance. In addition to providing coverage advice, Fay advises clients on good faith claims handling, including settlement in multi-claimant situations. Fay has tried over fifty jury trials and approximately thirty non-jury trials.
Fay graduated cum laude from Boston College with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She received her Doctor of Jurisprudence, cum laude, from the University of Florida College of Law . During law school, Fay earned the American Jurisprudence Award in Contracts, Estates and Trusts, English Legal History, and Legal Drafting. She is also a member of the Order of the Coif, an honor society for law school graduates who were in the top ten percent of their graduating class.
Since becoming a lawyer, Fay has contributed to the DRI ’s multi-state compendium (Florida chapter). She has also been published in Mealey’s Litigation Report: Bad Faith, and DRI’s: For The Defense magazine.
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Partner Fay Ryan Published in CLM Article
Congratulations to Tampa Partner Fay Ryan whose article 'Claimants Can't Have Their Cake and Eat It Too' was recently published in the CLM Magazine. Discover how the Eleventh Circuit's recent ruling in Compulife v. Zurich reshapes the use of judicial estoppel in insurance recovery for intentional tort claims. Read the full article on the CLM website by clicking here....
Butler Attorneys at the 2024 FDLA FINS
Come meet some of our esteemed attorneys at the FDLA Florida Insurance Network Symposium (FINS) on August 15-16, 2024 at the Renaissance Tampa International Plaza Hotel. This conference will focus on coverage, bad faith, and property insurance featuring high-level presentations by leading insurance attorneys and experts. to visit their website....
Claimants Can’t Have Their Cake and Eat it Too
Eleventh Circuit Judicially Estops Claimant From Recovering Intentional Tort Judgment Under Errors and Omission Liability PolicyIn a rarely seen application of the judicial estoppel doctrine in the third-party coverage context, on August 1, 2024, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals estopped the holder of an intentional tort judgment from garnishing the proceeds of the judgment debtor’s liabi...
558 - Kiss, Marry, Or Kill?
Partner Fay Ryan and co-presenters Thomas A. Koval (FCCI Insurance Company), Richard Meyerson (S-E-A, Ltd.), Michael E. Milne (Milne Law Group) and Jorge Santeiro (FCCI Insurance Group) presented '558 - Kiss, Marry, or Kill?' for the first annual Florida Insurance Network Symposium (FINS) in Tampa, FL on August 16, 2019.This panel discussed the efficacy of the pre-suit 'Notice and Opportunity ...
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Fall Claims Educational Seminar - Third-Party Liability Coverage In Florida
Fay Ryan and Yonit Rosengarten from Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig presented in Sarasota, FL at the FCCI Fall Claims Educational Seminar on the topic of 'Third-Party Liability Coverage in Florida'.In this presentation, we explored common themes and misperceptions that arise in the practice of Third-Party Coverage in Florida through the discussion of case law and real-world analysis. Topics include...
Surplus Insurers, Too, Can Rely on the Application to Interpret Policy
Section 627.419 of the Florida Statutes provides that “[e]very insurance contract shall be construed according to the entirety of its terms and conditions as set forth in the policy and as amplified, extended, or modified by any application therefor or any rider or endorsement thereto.” This statute has not applied to surplus lines insurers since the “Zota-fix” legislation of 2009, which g...
Reservation of Rights Letters for Casualty Claims: Effective Letters and Strategies
This presentation provides an overview of reservation of rights letters. We discuss the purpose, components, timeliness, practical drafting tips, consequences of failing to issue a reservation of rights letter, suggestions for responding to an insured, and an insurer's ongoing obligations when operating under a reservation of rights. to register.After registering, you will receive ...
Does Florida’s statutory duty to disclose insurance information apply to out-of-state policies?
One of the most common questions I get from insurers of out-of-state policyholders is whether they are required to honor a Florida claimant’s request for disclosure of insurance information under Florida Statute 627.4137. If the applicable policy was not delivered in Florida or issued for delivery in Florida, the short answer is “No.” Nonetheless, sometimes an insurer can best protect both i...
Three Is A Crowd: Revisiting The Third Party Beneficiary Doctrine
This article examines the third party beneficiary doctrine in conjunction with the approaches courts follow with regard to the collection of an excess judgment from a liability insurer....
2014 Rimkus Ce Seminar
Fay Ryan and Kimberly Gorak spoke at RIMKUS' 2014 CE Seminar on June 26, 2014. The presentation was titled, 'Protecting the Insured from Exposure in the Multiple Claimant Context.'...
2013 Clm Northern Florida Chapter Educational Event
Fay Ryan spoke at the 2013 CLM Northern Florida Chapter Educational Event on November 6, 2013. Fay's topic was 'Premises Liability.'...
Splitting The Baby: The Insurer’s Duty To Notify The Insured Of The Need For An Allocated Verdict
This is one of a series of articles originally published in Mealey's Litigation Report: Insurance Bad Faith, Vol. 24, #15 (December 9, 2010). 2010 [Editor's Note: Fay E. Ryan is a partner the Tampa office of Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP, which also has offices in Chicago, Charlotte, Mobile, Tallahassee and Miami. She is an experienced trial attorney in the firm's Extra-Contractual, T...
A Look Back At Some Of 2009s Significant Bad Faith Decisions
This is one of a series of articles originally published in Mealey's Litigation Report: Insurance Bad Faith, Vol. 23, #18 (January 28, 2010). 2010 [Editor's Note: Fay E. Ryan, is a partner with the law firm of Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP with offices in Charlotte, Miami, Mobile, Tallahassee and Tampa. She is an experienced trial attorney in the firm's Extra-Contractual, Third-Party C...
Justices: Please Take This Case!
This is one of a series of articles under the by line “Butler on Bad Faith” originally published in Mealey's Litigation Report: Insurance Bad Faith, Vol. 15, #12, p. 24 (October 17, 2001). Copyright Butler 2001.Two recent state court decisions jeopardize the right of insurers to consult legal counsel when considering whether to pay or deny the claim of a policyholder. The Arizona and Ohio...
