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Michael Golding
Senior Counsel
Michael L. Golding is senior counsel with the firm. His practice has focused on litigating complex commercial, product liability, professional liability and insurance coverage matters. He has significant experience in representing insurance carriers in coverage disputes arising under commercial general liability, commercial property, directors and officers, errors and omissions and professional liability policies.
Admissions:
- Supreme Court of Ohio
- Courts of the State of Texas
- United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
- United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
- United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
Education:
- The Georgetown University Law Center, J.D. (1993)
- Associate Editor, Georgetown International Law Journal
- Bucknell University, B.A. (1990)
Professional Activities:
- Ohio State Bar Association
- Houston Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Federal Bar Association
Representative Experience:
- Litigated dozens of cases brought against multi-national insurance company involving denial of benefits under commercial insurance policies issued to public corporations.
- Represent largest U.S. pet insurance provider in pursuing breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, tortious interference and trade secret claims against former brokerage.
- Defend municipal liability insurer in multi-million dollar property damage action arising from roof collapse on government building.
- Prepared coverage opinions regarding commercial property, commercial general liability, environmental, employment practices, errors & omissions and professional liability policies
- Handled coverage cases involving fraud, negligence and breach of fiduciary duty claims against public companies, national banks and investment firms based on investment losses.
- Resolved lawsuit against insurer involving cancellation of multi-million dollar surety bond portfolio issued to bank to support low-income housing projects throughout United States.
- Pursued subrogation claims in several states for commercial insurer and manufacturer arising from damage due to negligent installation of pre-engineered roofing systems.
- Successfully defended contract and patent infringement claims brought against commercial vehicle manufacturer in Northern District of Ohio and Eastern District of Virginia.
- Defended mutual fund company in litigation involving taxable nature of investments made by publicly-traded bank and in probate litigation brought by individual investors.
Email address: mgolding@westmorelandhall.com
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