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Stephen L Thomas, Esq.

Stephen Thomas specializes in insurance coverage for business litigation. Steve’s undergraduate degree is from Brown University in 1970, and his law degree is from Washington University in St. Louis in 1974. 

Principal fields of study include duty to defend, conflicts of interest, reservations of rights, the right to independent (Cumis) counsel, lawyers’ ethical obligations, reasonableness of attorney fees, insurer reimbursement claims, good faith reliance on counsel, insurer good or bad faith, and insurance coverage in complex civil litigation.

Programs by Stephen L Thomas, Esq..

Many neophyte plaintiff’s lawyers who file civil liability actions anticipating that defendants’ valid liability insurance will fund a settlement or judgment need to understand how liability insurers routinely seek to deny coverage to the...

Program Number
3492
Program Date
2024-06-05
Category
Ethics & ProfessionalismFederal CourtsFlorida EligibleInsurance Law
State
CaliforniaColoradoFloridaGeorgiaNew JerseyNew YorkTexas Self Study
Program Credits
Areas of Professional Practice:0.5 CreditLegal Ethics:0.5 Credit
Total Credits
CLE Credit: 1

Hundreds of thousands of times per year, defendants are sued whose insurers have reserved their rights to later deny coverage and have appointed panel defense counsel, who may be ethically disqualified from representing the interests of both the insu...

Program Number
33130
Program Date
2023-06-29
Category
Ethics & ProfessionalismFederal CourtsFlorida EligibleInsurance Law
State
CaliforniaColoradoFloridaGeorgiaNew JerseyNew YorkTexas Self Study
Program Credits
Legal Ethics:2 Credit
Total Credits
CLE Credit: 2