R. Steven Rawls

Steve Rawls contributes articles to IRMI.com about insurance law as it applies to liability insurance.

As a partner with the Tampa, Florida, office of Butler Pappas, Mr. Rawls devotes his practice to extra-contractual matters, third-party liability coverage, and third-party liability defense.

Mr. Rawls is a frequent author, writing for publications including Mealey's Litigation Report: Bad Faith, For the Defense, CGL Reporter, DRI, Recurring Issues in Insurance Disputes: A Guide for Insurers and Insureds, and Law and Practice of Insurance Coverage Litigation. He has spoken about extra-contractual, contractual, and insurance issues at several client seminars. Among other engagements, he appeared as a featured speaker at the 1995 Additional Insured Endorsements and Contractual Indemnity Agreements seminar. In 2002 Mr. Rawls spoke as a panelist on mold measurement limitations at the annual ABA coverage meeting of the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS). He has frequently spoken on the prevention and defense of "bad faith"/excess judgment claims, most recently speaking about time limit demands in a presentation entitled "Responding to Time Limit Demands with Conditions."

Mr. Rawls is a member of the Florida Bar and the Hillsborough County Bar Association. He has been admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Middle and Northern Districts of Florida. He is a member of the Defense Research Institute and the American Bar Association. Mr. Rawls graduated from the University of Florida College of Law.

Articles on IRMI.com

Insurance Law: Liability Insurance

The Future Is Now: When Eventual Indemnity Obligations become Present Defense Obligations (August 2008)

Variations on a Theme: When the Cause Theory Determines the Number of Occurrences (May 2008)

The Burden To Allocate: Mine, Yours, or Ours? (February 2008)

Insurance Law and Exclusion (m) (November 2007)

More Allocation Theories: Exhaustion (July 2007)

Cover Me: The Subcontractor Exception to the Your [Completed] Work Exclusion (April 2007)

The Scope of "Ongoing Operations" Additional Insured Endorsements: Broader than Expected (February 2007)

When Does Liability Coverage Exist for Mental Anguish without Bodily Injury? (November 2006)

Pre-Tender Defense Costs: Who Pays? (July 2006)

Are Products Advertisements That Give Rise to Advertising Injury Coverage? (April 2006)

Allocation of Damages for Ongoing Losses over Multiple Policies (January 2006)

The Scope of the Prior Publication Exclusion: Now You See It, Now You Don't (October 2005)

Insurers: Can You Get Your Defense Dollars Back? (July 2005)