For more than four decades, Gary Selvin has counseled national insurance
companies and private clients on insurance matters, and has been
representing them in coverage and bad faith litigation before state and
federal courts throughout California and the United States.

Mr. Selvin provides coverage advice under general liability policies (including
OCIP policies) on a broad variety of issues, which include cutting edge
questions involving sexual abuse, complex “personal injury and advertising
injury” issues, habitability and construction defects. He also provides
coverage assistance to clients on errors and omissions policies insuring
lawyers, real estate agents, and architects and engineers, and directors and
officers.

His insurance coverage counseling practice also involves complex, diverse,
and often sensitive claims. He has assisted in the investigation and analysis
of sophisticated commercial property claims, business income and extra
expense losses, and the variety of unique issues which arise under both ISO
and manuscripted property forms.

Mr. Selvin’s trial experience is extensive and includes a broad array of
policies and issues. He has tried to verdict a substantial number of bad faith
cases involving virtually all claims presented within the sphere of coverage –
denials of first and third party claims, bad faith failure to settle,
notice/prejudice issues, uninsured and underinsured bad faith cases,
construction bad faith claims, business income, causation of loss, inland
marine policy issues, and earthquake claims. This trial experience, coupled
with his coverage analysis and opinion writing, gives him the unique ability
to understand, in context, the consequence of decisions made during the
claim process.

In addition to trials involving insurance and bad faith, he has tried to verdict
lawsuits alleging legal, real estate, and medical malpractice, and serious
bodily injury claims involving orthopedic injuries, quadriplegia, amputations,
and brain injuries.​

Mr. Selvin has argued dozens of appeals before state appellate and Supreme
Courts and federal appellate courts in jurisdictions nationwide on issues
involving property and casualty coverage and bad faith.

He is frequently retained by insurers and policyholders to testify as an expert
on the reasonableness of claim handling and coverage determinations. He is
also engaged to mediate disputes between insurers and policyholders and to
resolve various casualty claims.