Background
Steve Rawls contributes articles to IRMI.com about liability
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.