Phillips, Spallas & Angstadt LLP is an AV-rated, civil litigation defense firm specializing in the defense of products, premises, employment, landlord-tenant, environmental, commercial, pharmaceutical malpractice, construction, auto/UM, complex insurance coverage and bad faith.
The firm’s Insurance Group has extensive experience representing primary insurers, excess insurers, health, and claims management organizations in a complete range of matters involving third and first party insurance coverage and bad faith issues. Our expertise includes issues associated with environmental, asbestos, construction defect, habitability, products, advertising injury, commercial disputes, intellectual property, sales practices, officers and directors liability, and rescission actions.
The Insurance Group provides its clients with a full range of pre-litigation counseling services, including evaluating the legal and factual bases for policyholder and beneficiary requests for insurance coverage or benefits, as well as responding to such requests. Our services also includes assessing and handling demands for Cumis counsel and providing written opinions on the existence and scope of insurance coverage, if any, and advising clients on practical alternatives to litigation. If litigation is necessary, Phillips, Spallas & Angstadt, LLP is there with substantial experience and expertise, both in federal and state courts.
With fully staffed offices in San Francisco, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, the firm possesses a thorough knowledge of the unique rules, judiciary and plaintiffs’ bar of most state and federal venues in California and Nevada. This knowledge is a product of not only the highly qualified local attorneys staffing each office, but also the vast trial experience accumulated by the attorneys of Phillips, Spallas & Angstadt LLP. The firm tries dozens of cases each year, and has acted as national coordinating counsel for products liability litigation and as assigned lead defense counsel for Proposition 65 environmental litigation.
Further, we are proud that our firm has been registered by the U.S. Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency as a minority-owned business. Our identification number in the MBDA Phoenix database is 40421. Confirmation of our minority business designation can be obtained by contacting the Minority Business Development Agency through their San Francisco regional office at (415) 744-3001, or you may visit their website at www.mbda.gov.
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