Ronald J. Clark

Practice Experience

Ron Clark focuses his practice on insurance coverage litigation, and the defense of general tort actions, including product liability claims. His practice emphasizes litigation of claims involving construction-related issues, and allegations of bad-faith claims handling.

Representative Trial Results

Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith

• Metawave Communications Corp. v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co., et al, California state court and Court of Appeals ($18 million business interruption claim and bad faith allegations tried and won in California State Court and also on appeal)
• Hartford Financial Services Corp. v. Cleveland Public Library, Federal Court in Cleveland, Ohio and 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ($10 million property coverage and bad faith claim tried and won in trial court and also on appeal)
• Mancuso v. American Family Ins. Company, Oregon federal district court (fire claim and related tort claims defeated at jury trial based on insured's misrepresentations)
• Stepp v. Safeco Ins. Co., Oregon state court (Arson defense to coverage claim, won at trial)
• Traders & General Ins. Co. v. Freeman, Federal Court in Oregon and on appeal (Arson defense to coverage claim involving "innocent co-insured" won at trial, and also on appeal)
• Koldkist-Beverage Ice., Inc., et al v. Liberty Northwest Ins. Co., Oregon state court (Fraud and bad faith claim won at trial)
• Linda Lochard v. American Family Life Insurance Company (2009) Defense verdict at trial in a life insurance case defended based on misrepresentations by the decedent in the application.

Product Liability Suits

• Weeg v. Lewis Bros. Rental Co., Oregon state court case involving allegedly defective back hoe, won in state court
• Fite-Frazer v. Portland Party Works, Inc., Oregon state court case involving allegedly defective product at convention, won in state court
• Holbrook v. Gowan Company, Oregon state court case involving allegedly defective herbicide, won in state court

Miscellaneous

• Whittington v. American Family Insurance, Malicious Prosecution case, won in Oregon state court
• Haatia v. American Family Insurance, Defamation case, won in Oregon state court
• Odd Fellows Cemetery Assoc. v. Schenck Communications, Inc., Timber Trespass case, won in Oregon state court
• McCarty v. Trend Setter Home Improvement, Employers Liability case, won in Oregon state court
• Loftus v. Westberg, Wrongful Death case, $400,000 plaintiff's verdict in Oregon state court
• Approximately 20 other jury trials in addition to those listed above