Michael A. Hamilton

Practice Details

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  Payment & Cost Features

  Fixed hourly rates
  Fixed fees available
  
• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Goldberg Segalla LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Matters: Prevailed before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
  the Illinois Court of Appeals, obtaining favorable rulings in related matters involving insurance coverage for a class action asserting violations of the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
  Secured summary judgment for his client in federal court in a case concerning insurance coverage for environmental liabilities arising from the alleged discharge of pollutants by numerous property owners onto a neighboring property.
  Obtained a victory for a transportation authority before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, in a far-reaching decision addressing the impact of workers' compensation liens on personal injury settlements involving state governmental entities.
  Succeeded before the North Carolina Supreme Court in a multimillion-dollar case involving insurance coverage for false advertising
  trademark infringement claims
  the opinion was recognized by Mealey's as one of the most significant U.S. insurance decisions in 2010.
  Served as trial
  appellate co-counsel for a domestic insurer in the Southern District of New York
  the Second Circuit in the World Trade Center Property Insurance Litigation, prevailing in a nationally recognized case involving attempts by the World Trade Center's leaseholder to recover insurance proceeds after September 11.
  Represented his client before the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, resulting in a ruling of first impression that self-insured commercial entities are not liable under Pennsylvania's bad faith statute.