Mr. McDaniel summarized professional liability, employment practices
liability, and umbrella/excess cases for CGL
Reporter from 2008 through 2011.
As a partner of Carlock, Copeland & Stair LLP, Mr. McDaniel leads the
firm's insurance coverage and bad faith litigation practice. With over 20
years' experience advising insurers in the management of risk through
representation in complex coverage and bad faith litigation, he has
prosecuted and defended insurance coverage and bad faith disputes involving a
wide range of policies, including commercial liability, professional,
directors and officers, employment practices liability, excess, and umbrella.
He regularly addresses matters involving coverage exclusions, number of
occurrences, trigger of coverage, allocation, other insurance provisions, and
various policy endorsements.
In addition to his comprehensive coverage practice, Mr. McDaniel maintains
a personal injury defense practice focusing on catastrophic bodily injury and
wrongful death cases arising out of transportation collisions, including
trucking litigation and highway design and defects, construction and
negligent or inadequate premises security arising out of criminal attacks and
sexual assaults. Mr. McDaniel also utilizes his knowledge and experience in
insurance coverage to counsel and advise insurers in favorably resolving
multiparty, complex tort, and construction litigation.
He is an author and lecturer on various insurance coverage and litigation
defense topics for clients and various industry based organizations,
including NBI's "Understanding Current CGL Policy in Georgia,"
Lorman's "Litigating the Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist
Claim," and the Georgia Bar's "31st Annual Insurance Law
Institute."
Mr. McDaniel received his bachelor of arts degree from Vanderbilt
University and his juris doctor degree from the University of South Carolina
School of Law.