Robert Darroch

Biography

Robert M. Darroch has a trial practice with a primary focus on insurance coverage issues (property & casualty) and commercial liability defense. He has handled individual cases, class actions, and multi-district litigation in the state and federal courts of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, California, New Jersey, Nevada and Washington, D.C. Mr. Darroch has tried over 200 contested jury cases on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants, some of which involved hundreds of millions of dollars. He has represented insurers and insureds in over 100 published appellate court cases throughout the Southeast and his books on insurance coverage issues have been relied upon by the Courts in State Farm v. Day, 195 Ga. App. 823, 394 S.E.2d 913 (1990) and Peterson v. Liberty Mutual, 188 Ga. App. 420, 373 S.E.2d 515 (1988). He was appointed by the Court and served on the Insurer Steering Committee in In Re: Chinese-Manufactured Drywall Products Liability Litigation, MDL 2047, USDC Eastern District of Louisiana and on the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in In Re: Tri-State Crematory Litigation, MDL 1467, USCD Northern District of Georgia.

Robert was raised in Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida and Atlanta, Georgia, and is admitted to the bars in Florida and Georgia. He attended Berry College, University of Heidelberg (Germany) and Emory University School of Law where he was a member of the Order of Barristers. He is the author of numerous articles and books including Motor Vehicle Insurance Law and Claims in Georgia (Harrison Publishers, 1989); Georgia Automobile Insurance Law (Harrison Publishers, 1986); Financial Privacy after September 11, SIU Awareness, September, 2002, Jones v. State Farm: An Expensive Lesson, Georgia State Bar Journal, May, 1982. He has traveled throughout the Southeast speaking to insurers, risk managers, and lawyers on various coverage issues, the handling and defense of bad faith claims, and other tort issues. He is a member of the Florida State Bar Association, State Bar of Georgia, Sarasota Florida Bar Association, Atlanta Bar Association, American Bar Association, Florida Defense Lawyers Association, Georgia Defense Lawyers Association, Defense Research Institute, Jacksonville Claims Association, Sarasota Bradenton Claims Association, and Atlanta Claims Association.

Education

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Admissions/Licenses

• Bar Admissions: GA, FL