PATRICK S. BRADY
Of Counsel
Main Phone: 206.689.8500
Direct Line: 206.267.2265
Email: pbrady@forsberg-umlauf.com
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PRACTICE EMPHASIS AND EXPERIENCE
Appeals
Environmental Litigation
General Liability Defense
Insurance Coverage
Patrick’s practice focuses on litigation and appellate matters, in all aspects of insurance defense, along with special emphasis on coverage and bad-faith issues.
Patrick has handled the litigation and appeal of insurance coverage, insurance broker, environmental and bad-faith issues; and commercial issues, including nuclear fuel, timber, and Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act cases. His Ph.D. and college teaching experience in American History bring an added perspective to many legal matters. In addition to his legal practice, he is completing a nonfiction account of a battle in the American Civil War.
EDUCATION
J.D., Indiana University School of Law, 1979, summa cum laude
--Graduated first in class, Order of the Coif
--Editor-in-Chief, Indiana Law Journal
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship, 1971
Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara, 1971
B.A., Stanford University, 1966
BAR / COURT ADMISSIONS
State of Washington, 1981
United States District Court, Western District of Washington
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
United States Supreme Court
HONORS / AWARDS / UNIQUE RECOGNITION
- Recognized as one of "Top Lawyers," July, 2010, as selected by peers in Seattle Met magazine.
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
- Representation of insurers in wide range of coverage areas, including healthcare provider liability, liquor liability, automobile, homeowners, and general liability. See, for example, National Clothing Co., Ltd. v. Hartford Cas. Ins. Co., 135 Wn. App. 578, 145 P.3d 394 (2006), rev. denied, 161 Wn.2d 1006, 166 P.3d 718 (2007); Black v. National Merit Ins. Co., 154 Wn. App. 674, 226 P.3d 175, rev. denied, 169 Wn.2d 1021, 238 P.3d 503 (2010).
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC INVOLVEMENT
Washington State Bar Association
King County Bar Association
ARTICLES AND PRESENTATIONS
- Author: "Duty to Defend," WDTL, 2010
- Author: “Current Issues Impacting Insurance Defense Practice,” NBI, 2007
- Author: “Avoiding Bad Faith Claims,” NBI, 2006
- Author: “The Effect of Stipulated Judgments on Coverage and Bad Faith Claims,” WDTL, 2005
- Presenter: “Reasonableness Hearings after Covenant Judgments,” NW Insurance Coverage Association, 2005
