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Our Practice
Our firm concentrates its practice in the following areas of litigation:
Products Liability
The firm has represented products manufacturers in a diverse number
of cases involving automobiles, tires, trucks, medical devices and
machines, saws, sporting equipment, drug pharmaceuticals, chemicals,
industrial refuse compactors, lawnmowers and mechanical devices
of all kinds.
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Transportation
The firm has been retained in liability actions involving automobiles,
over the road trucks, railroad, and commercial watercrafts with
resulting claims of personal injury, property damage and economic
loss.
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Professional Liability
A substantial portion of the firm’s work is devoted to the
defense of healthcare malpractice actions, including the defense
of doctors, chiropractors, clinics, hospitals, professional corporations,
nurses and other healthcare professionals. The firm has also
represented attorneys, accountants and ministers in professional
liability matters.
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Construction
Brenner Ford Monroe & Scott, Ltd. has been primary trial counsel
for general contractors, prime contractors, subcontractors, architects
and owners of business property in claims involving negligence,
contract and statutory liability and construction.
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Premises Liability
The lawyers at Brenner Ford Monroe & Scott, Ltd. have represented
numerous landlords and business owners in slip and fall cases, and
in defense actions based on the criminal acts of third persons.
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Employer Liability
The firm’s experience extends into the areas of worker’s
compensation defense, wrongful discharge, racial, sexual, age and
other discrimination, and has represented employers in federal and
state courts as well as in administrative hearings in defense of
such actions.
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Insurance
Issues regarding coverage afforded by insurance policies, claims
of bad faith and vexatious delay in the settling of claims and numerous
other issues involved in insurance coverage litigation, including
the issuance of detailed opinion letters have frequently arisen
in our practice.
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Defamation
Our lawyers have represented defendants in actions brought under
theories of libel and slander, and have expertise in constitutional
and statutory issues which arise in defamation actions.
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Religious Institutions
The lawyers at Brenner Ford Monroe & Scott, Ltd. perform substantial
litigation work for insurers with an emphasis on coverage for religious
institutions. The firm’s lawyers represent these religious
entities in premises liability, general negligence and sexual misconduct
cases.
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Meeting and Convention Liability
Our lawyers have assisted in the defense of cases involving meeting
exhibition contractors, hotels, meeting planners and other travel
related businesses in liability and contract matters.
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Excess Liability
Firm lawyers have represented insurance companies in excess and
reinsurance issues including the monitoring of ongoing litigation
to determine the liability of excess carriers for substantial judgments
in product liability, construction and premises liability litigation. |
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Sheldon A. Brenner leads the firm’s mediation and arbitration
practice which provides services to attorneys and insurance companies
in the arbitration or mediation of disputes and in the formal presentation
of claims pursuant to uninsured/underinsured motorist coverages. |
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Brenner Ford
Monroe & Scott Ltd.
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