This is our Practice

Insurance Defense

If two words could define our defense practice it is service and success.  Our insurance defense group consists of accomplished litigators with a reputation for excellence, integrity and innovation in local, state, federal and appellate courts. We structure our entire practice around the proactive, aggressive and efficient disposition of cases in litigation and counseling on the prevention of future litigation.

As trusted counsel and skilled trial lawyers, we have successfully represented insurers and their policyholders in all aspects of the claim’s process, including:

• Automobile third party liability
• Uninsured and underinsured motorist claims
• First-party wage and medical coverage
• Property and homeowners claims
• Premises liability
• Products liability
• Professional liability
• Construction
• Medical malpractice
• Insurance coverage
• Bad faith

We pride ourselves on understanding and respecting our clients’ needs and goals and ensuring through teamwork that these are accomplished. This, combined with the quality of our work, responsiveness to our clients, thoroughness of our representation and trial and settlement results makes The Mayers Firm the right choice for navigating today’s increasingly complex insurance landscape.

Insurance Fraud

The Insurance Fraud group of The Mayers Firm plays a multilayered role in representing the insurance industry in the ongoing battle against insurance fraud.  Our team has a wealth of experience representing insurers in fraud related matters.  Our attorneys are armed with the essential knowledge and skills to advise on a wide range of litigation, counseling and administrative topics.  We take pride in providing our clients with a blend of experience in prosecutorial and civil practice.  Most importantly, we understand how to serve their needs in this complex and high stakes arena.

Our Insurance Fraud Group has provided outstanding service and has obtained exemplary results for our clients in the following practice areas:

• Affirmative recovery lawsuits including RICO, restitution and asset forfeitures
• First party medical compliance programs, fraud detection and prosecution
• Defense of claims against insurers for bad faith, malicious prosecution, defamation and invasion of privacy
• Property claims investigation including examinations under oath and coverage opinions
• Arson investigation
• Staged accidents—fraud rings

Insurance Coverage

Our group of expert attorneys are well-acquainted with the array of complex coverage questions that arise for insurance companies.  We provide counsel on a wide spectrum of issues in commercial, homeowners and automobile policies.  These issues range from construction indemnification agreements and related demands for coverage and defense, interpretation and application of exclusions in commercial general liability, homeowner and automobile policies, and complex insurance disputes between competing carriers.

Not only do we have experience in providing sound legal advice in complex issues of coverage, defense and indemnification, but also in litigating these questions by virtue of declaratory judgement actions.  Our counsel is routinely sought in matters such as catastrophic casualty events, serious and fatal injury claims, disputes involving general contractors, subcontractors and related construction disputes, as well as first party medical, income loss and UM and UIM claims.

Our Coverage Team provides a comprehensive approach from the initial investigation, providing coverage opinions, reservation of rights position letters and indemnification decisions through declaratory judgement litigation.  Our group provides these all-encompassing services for insurance companies and private clients alike.  We pride ourselves on providing sound, sensible, and practical advice to our clients in pursuing the enforcement of coverage opinions during litigation when necessary.

Commercial Litigation

The Commercial Litigation team represents public corporations, small to medium size businesses and insurance companies in virtually every type of dispute that can arise in the business context.  This includes breach of contract cases, partnership/joint venture disputes, class actions, business torts, civil RICO claims, breach of fiduciary duty allegations and shareholder issues.

The Mayers Firm recognizes that efficiency, creativity, and sound judgment are critical to achieve our clients’ goals. While all cases are prepared with an eye towards trial, our seasoned commercial litigators appreciate that we must at all times strive for the best possible outcomes for our clients at a reasonable cost.

Litigation today increasingly occurs in various venues from state and federal courts to private arbitrations and administrative hearings. Understanding the motivations and outlook of each participant to the litigation process, and the pros and cons of each forum, enable our team to develop and implement a creative legal approach to each individual problem.

At The Mayers Firm, we offer the expertise of a large firm, but with the service and rate structure that only a smaller firm can provide.

Personal Injury

Born from a lifetime of aggressively and successfully defending the most complex and significant personal injury claims of our Insurance Company clients and their insureds, The Personal Injury practice of The Mayers Firm was established. Not coincidentally when these same insurance claims executives and claims representatives needed representation of their own, their family and friends, who better to turn to then the same attorneys whom they have trusted with their most serious claims for over 30 years. The Personal Injury Group of The Mayers Firm renown for their reputation in the courtroom for representing defendants brings the same integrity, professionalism and passion to the representation of the severely injured.

At The Mayers Firm we understand, as do our clients, that the results we achieve are driven by our attention to detail and our thoroughness in the preparation of their case. In the past few years alone our attorneys have settled or tried to verdict numerous cases exceeding seven figures. Recently Joseph B. Mayers obtained a $4,464,565.00 verdict in Montgomery County, which after a successful appeal resulted in a total award in excess of 5.5 million. This was reported as one of the top four verdicts in the last decade in Montgomery County. Click here to read about this verdict.

Listed below are some of the representative settlements and verdicts which we have achieved for our clients:

• $4.4 Million verdict on behalf of a woman who underwent a cervical fusion and permanent reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) as a result of a motor vehicle accident. After confirmed on appeal, the verdict ballooned to over 5 Million Dollars.
• $1.5 Million settlement on behalf of a woman burned as a result of a manufacturing defect.
• $1.2 Million policy limits settlement of an uninsured motorist claim on behalf of a client forced off the road by an unidentified driver sustaining neck and back injuries.
• $1 Million policy limits settlement as a result of injuries sustained by a passenger in a motor vehicle forced off the road by an uninsured motorist.
• $900,000 settlement as a result of a worker injured while unloading a truck which had been negligently packed.
• $600,000 settlement as a result of injuries sustained by a woman when her vehicle was forced off of the road by a negligent motorist.
• $585,000 settlement on behalf of an over-the-road truck driver who was injured in a motor vehicle accident.
• $520,000 settlement on behalf of a client injured in a bar fight as a result of the bar’s inadequate security.
• $500,000 policy limits settlement on behalf of a young woman who sustained a hearing loss in one ear as a result of an uninsured motor vehicle accident.
• $475,000 settlement on behalf of a woman rear-ended in a motor vehicle accident.
• $450,000 verdict on behalf of a gentleman injured when he slipped and fell on snow and ice at his apartment complex.
• $425,000 settlement for a woman injured when her vehicle was forced off of the road by an uninsured motorist.
• $415,000 policy limits settlement on behalf of a couple injured when struck head-on by a drunk driver.
• $340,000 settlement for a tenant of an apartment injured as a result of a defect in the rental property not sufficiently maintained by her landlord.
• $275,000 settlement on behalf of a client injuring her knee when she stepped in a hole in a recreational area maintained by a private club.
• $250,000 settlement for a client injured after tripping over a defect in an owner-maintained sidewalk.
• $220,000 settlement for a client injured by a falling object in a grocery store.
• $200,000 settlement for a client injured when she stepped into a hole on a private landowner’s property.
• $188,000 settlement on behalf of a client injured in a motor vehicle accident by a motorist who disregarded a stop sign.
• $180,000 settlement on behalf of a pedestrian struck by a vehicle while inside a pedestrian crosswalk.
• $162,500 settlement for a client injured as a result of a defect on a city-maintained sidewalk.