 Craig A. Cohen Craig A. Cohen currently serves as the Chair of the Complex Litigation Department where he specializes in the representation of the insurance industry in the defense of class actions and bad faith matters nationwide. In particular, Mr. Cohen represents major insurance carriers in the defense of actions concerning their claims, underwriting, and actuarial practices. Additionally, his group serves as coordinating counsel to several major insurance carriers, managing the defense of complex litigation and class actions across the country. In addition, Mr. Cohen is responsible for the creation of and continued management of Up to Speed: The Automobile Insurance and Collision Industry Research Report, a nationally distributed report focused on important legal developments in the automobile insurance and collision repair industries. He has also written numerous articles on various topics relating to litigation in the insurance industry. Mr. Cohen lectures frequently across the United States on insurance business practices, class action law, and bad faith. Mr. Cohen's litigation victories include defense verdicts in the widely publicized cases of Pack Brothers v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. and Tuttle v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co., both multi-week complex jury trials involving issues of unfair trade practices, insurer steering, and defamation. In addition, he was successful in obtaining dismissal before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals of a $20 billion federal antitrust class action (Gilchrist v. State Farm, et al.) involving insurance rate-making issues. Mr. Cohen was also successful in defeating class certification in Adams v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co., a Texas putative class action involving material damage claims practices.
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Published Works:After the Storm: Courts Grapple with the Insurance Coverage Issues Resulting from Hurricane Katrina, Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal, Winter, 2008 A Matter of Interpretation: How Courts Have Applied the Electronic Discovery Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, The Legal Intelligencer E-Discovery Supplement, February 4, 2008 Using the Primary Jurisdiction Doctrine in Insurance Litigation, Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section's The Brief Magazine, Summer, 2007 Friends Make Lousy Witnesses - Leave Them At Home, Defense Research Institute's Trials and Tribulations, Fall, 2004 Pennsylvania Insurers Get First Glimpse of Campbell's Impact on Punitive Damages Under 42 Pa.C.S.A. Sec. 8371, Mealey's: Insurance Bad Faith, Vol. 17, No. 19 (Feb. 4, 2004) Erosion of the Antitrust Exemption for Insurers, For the Defense, Vol. 45 No. 5, 2003 Kentucky Health Association of Health Plans, Inc. v. Miller: The U.S. Supreme Court Opens The Door To State Health Insurance Regulation, 2003 The Use of the 'Self-Critical Analysis' Privilege in Insurance Litigation, Mealey's: Emerging Insurance Disputes, Vol. 7, No. 16 (April 20, 2002) Hypothesis Formation in Personality Development, Old Commons Review, Vol. 1, 1986 Practice Disciplines:Bad Faith Consulting and Litigation Complex Litigation Corporate Governance Insurance Coverage Insurance Regulatory Bar Admissions:Pennsylvania, 1989 U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1990 U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 1991 U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit, 2007 U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit, 2003 Education:Temple University School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
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