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ROBERT A. MANNHEIMER
A Professional Service Corporation
9500 Roosevelt Way NE, Ste. 303

Seattle, WA 98115

206/957-1031

• PRACTICE: General Civil litigation, ADR and arbitration, with a focus on insurance law and insurance defense work.
• MARTINDALE-HUBBELL: AV Peer Review Rating. 

• EMPLOYMENT:  Over 25 years of experience in civil litigation

November, 2005 – present; Solo practitioner, Seattle, WA

Civil litigation including insurance defense.  Clients include State Farm, American Commerce Insurance Company, Berkley Risk, and California State Automobile Association.  Handles UIM and mandatory arbitrations, jury trials, appellate cases, and coverage opinions. Successfully handled appeals in Hall v. State Farm (Division Two of the Washington Court of Appeals, 2006) and Banzeruk v. Estate of Howitz (Division One of Washington Court of Appeals, 2006).

1996 – November, 2005; Todd & Wakefield, Seattle, WA

Insurance defense.  Clients included State Farm, All State, Safeco, American Commerce, Berkley Risk Administrators, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) and California State Automobile Association.  Handled numerous arbitrations and jury trials.  Successfully handled Safeco subrogation claim arising out of electrical substation fire in Whatcom County.  Participated in several appellate cases ranging from issues of service of process to additional insured status in a commercial loss.  See Williams-Moore v. Estate of Shaw, 122 Wn. App. 871 (2004), Silver v. State Farm, 96 Wn. App. 31 (1999), and Affiliated FM Insurance v. Patriot Fire Protection, Docket #52205-1-I (Unpublished Opinion) (2004).

1986-1996; State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company; Seattle, WA

Insurance coverage opinions, defense of numerous UIM arbitrations, binding private arbitrations, authored law manual on insurance related topics.  Conducted numerous presentations regarding various insurance related topics.

1984 – 1986; Law Firm of Robert E. Corning; Bothell, WA

      General civil practice.

1980 – 1983; Dreher, Wilson, Adams & Jensen; Des Moines, IA

General Civil litigation practice.

• EDUCATION

University of Iowa Law School, Juris Doctor with honors, 1980

Grinnell College, Bachelor of Arts, 1976

• AFFILIATIONS

Washington State Bar Association

Washington Defense Trial Lawyers

King County Bar Association

Defense Research Institute

Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter degree, 1992