Jeffrey M. Davidson

Jeffrey Davidson is an associate in the firm’s San Francisco office, maintaining a complex litigation practice focusing on high-stakes policyholder-side insurance coverage matters.  He has successfully represented a wide range of clients in major insurance recovery, antitrust, and intellectual property disputes.  His insurance recovery practice has addressed an array of underlying losses from third-party breach of fiduciary duty, asbestos, bodily injury, and environmental claims, as well as first-party property damage, business interruption, and crime loss, and has involved insurance policies including errors and omissions, property, directors and officers, CGL, and fidelity policies.

Representative Matters

• Representing managed care provider in $100 million insurance recovery action under errors and omissions policies. Successfully obtained reversal on appeal of adverse trial court ruling.
• Representing national sports league in seeking recovery for expenses incurred in underlying multi-district tort litigation.
• Represented mining company on open pit mining first-party property and business interruption loss in Indonesia, resulting in a favorable settlement with reinsurers.
• Successfully represented policyholder in obtaining insurance recovery for hundreds of millions in asbestos claims.
• Successfully represented policyholder in recovering insurance for loss arising out of large rail accident.
• Represented multiple policyholders in claims, litigation, and settlement in UK solvent schemes of arrangement.
• Representing a leading electronics manufacturer in In re TFT-LCD Antitrust Litigation, a consolidated set of antitrust and deceptive practices class actions involving liquid crystal displays used in televisions, monitors, and other products.

Honors and Rankings

• Named 2012 “Rising Star” by Northern California Super Lawyers.

Pro Bono

• First-chaired trial defense of accused individual client, obtaining judgment of acquittal.
• Represented current and former inmates in an appeal to the Third Circuit in a civil matter involving exposure to silica in the prison workplace.

Publications and Speeches

• Authored chapters on fidelity and cyber-security insurance for Lexis Practice Advisor series.

• "New York's Highest Court Rules SEC Disgorgement Settlement Not Excluded From Insurance," Covington E-Alert (6/27/2013), Co-Author
• "What Every Junior IP Litigator Needs to Know," AIPLA Annual Meeting (2011)
• "Theories of Asbestos Litigation Costs - Why Two Decades of Procedural Reform Have Failed to Reduce Claimants' Expenses," 7 Nev. L.J. 73 (2006), Author