Ryan H. Opgenorth
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100 Green Street, San Francisco, CA 94111
About Ryan H. Opgenorth
Practice Areas
- Insurance
Education
- University of Southern California Gould School of Law, Los Angeles, California, 2007Juris Doctor
- Law Journal: Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, Member
- University of California, Los Angeles, 2003Bachelor of Arts
- Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Representative Cases
- Achieved 8-figure and 7-figure settlements for clients against insurers who wrongfully refused to defend their insureds in lawsuits that were covered under commercial general liability insurance policies.
- Secured lifetime long-term care benefits for a client by barring her insurance carrier from rescinding the policy based on responses to impermissible application questions.
- Reversed on appeal a summary adjudication ruling in insurer’s favor in the published decision Sequeira v. Lincoln National Life Insurance Company (2015) 239 Cal.App.4th 1438.
- Successfully argued numerous motions for summary adjudication on bad faith and punitive damages before courts throughout California
- Tucker v. The Travelers Indemnity Co. of Conn., et al. (N.D. Cal.) 2017 WL 10456186
- Massachusetts Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Chang (N.D. Cal.) 2016 WL 6778664
- Sequeira v. Lincoln National Life Ins. Co. (2015) 239 Cal.App.4th 1438
- Evans v. Poms & Associates Ins. Brokers, Inc. (C.D. Cal.) 2015 WL 857464
- Cadenasso v. Unum Group, et al. (N.D. Cal.) 2014 WL 12703565
- Rader v. Sun Life Assur. Co. of Canada (N.D. Cal. 2013) 941 F.Supp.2d 1191
- Ruiz Food Products, Inc. v. Catlin Underwriting U.S., Inc. (E.D. Cal.) 2012 WL 4050001
Classes and Seminars
- Summary of workers’ compensation bad faith cases , “The Domino Effect” Seminar, Sept. 2014
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- U.S. District Court Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of California
- U.S. District Court Central District of California
- U.S. District Court Southern District of California
Other Affiliations
- American Association for Justice (Member)
- Consumer Attorneys of California (Member)
- San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association (Member)
- Asian American Bar Association (Member)
Articles
Published Works
- The impact of Crawford v. Weather Shield MFG., Inc. on contractual indemnity provisions , McCormick Barstow LLP, 2009
- Insurance coverage issues in personal injury cases , San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association, September , 2015
- Deposing insurance company personnel: lessons learned, Advocate Magazine, September, 2018
Office Info
Other Colleagues
- Insurance, Disability
- 39 years of experienceAlternative Dispute Resolution, Appellate, Class Actions, Contracts, Copyrights, Trademarks, Business Law
- Insurance, Construction
- Insurance
Nearby Lawyers
- Insurance
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