 Carleton R. Burch
Los Angeles, California
Senior Partner
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Mr. Burch practices in the firm's Los Angeles, California office as well as its Las Vegas, Nevada office. Mr. Burch's practice includes fidelity and other specialty lines insurance coverage and bad faith litigation, banking and bank operations litigation, ERISA benefits litigation, business and real estate litigation, and intellectual property litigation. He also represents employers in employment matters. He has published extensively in the areas of fidelity insurance and insurance litigation. Mr. Burch has handled complex insurance claims and litigation including class actions, in California and Nevada in state and federal courts for those states. His banking, credit union and creditors' practice also sees him before all courts in California and Nevada. - 1991
- Fidelity and Insurance Coverage
- Bad Faith Litigation
- Banking and Lender Liability Litigation
- Real Property and Title Insurance Matters
- Business Litigation
- Intellectual Property Litigation
- California, 1987
- Colorado, 1994
- Nevada, 2007
- U.S. District Court Central District of California
- U.S. District Court Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court Southern District of California
- U.S. Supreme Court
- University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, California,
1987
- Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado,
1984
Honors: Cum Laude
- The ABC's of Insuring Agreement (D) under the Financial Institution Bond, with David DiBiase and David Billings, The Fidelity Law Journal, Volume XVII, 2d ed., December, 2011
- The Impact of an Insured's Bankruptcy on Fidelity Claims and Litigation, presented on November 5, 2010 in Boston, MA and published in Profiles in Green, a Study of Common Fidelity Loss Scenarios, American Bar Association, Tort Trial and Insurance Practices Section, 2010
- The Inventory and Profit and Loss Computation Exclusion - Practical Approaches to Issues Relating to the Exclusion, with D.M. Studler & Amy White, The Fidelity Law Journal, Volume XV, October, 2009
- Annotated Commercial Crime Policy 2d Ed. Chapter 2 Loss and Causation, with David DiBiase, Contributor to Kain, Glovach, eds., ABA Publishing, 2006
- Institutions Must Be Ready for Financial Elder Abuse Litigation, California Mortgage Finance News, Summer, 2006
- A Year or So of Causation Analysis in Less than 2000 Words with David DiBiase, IADC Newsletter, October 2005
- The Interpretation of a Direct Loss Under Fidelity Bonds with Gary Valeriano, The Brief, Summer, Vol. 33 No. 4, 2004
- Direct Means Direct, The Practical Impact of Vons Companies, Inc. v. Federal Insurance Company, Fidelity & Surety Law Newsletter, Winter, 2002
- The Lessons of Lustig, Liability Under The Civil False Claims Act, The Brief, Fall, Vol. 30, No. 1, p. 43, 2000
- Presenter, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and other Collection Torts in Bankruptcy, Chief Bankruptcy Judges' Conference Education Program, November 2009, Santa Barbara, California
- Moderator, The Nuts & Bolts of Repurchase/Indemnification Litigation presented with Jacqueline Barend, Steven Dailey, Jesse Hernandez, Paul Levin and Vanessa Widener, California Mortgage Bankers Association, 12th Annual Western States Loan Servicing Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada,
August 5, 2007
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August 7, 2007
- Who's Who? An update on the Alter Ego Defense, presented with Carl Grant and Guy Harrison, Tenth Annual Eastern Bond Claims Review, May 21, 2007, Chatham, New Jersey
- Stacking Limits on Fidelity Claims, The Exception or the Norm?, 2002 ABA Mid-Winter Meeting, Tort & Insurance Practice Section with David DiBiase
- Forgery Claims Against Stockbrokers and the UCC, Eastern Bond Claims Association - May, 2002
- Direct Loss Under Common Fidelity Coverages - "Direct Means Direct", 1999 Meeting of the ABA, Tort & Insurance Practice Section
- The Use and Abuse of Evidentiary and Other Sanctions in Fidelity Litigation in Federal Court, Surety Claims Institute, June 1998 with Lisa Coplen
- Third Party Losses, A Causational Approach to Resolving Claims on Fidelity Bonds and Other Common Crime Coverages Based Upon Losses to an Insured Arising Out of Claims Against the Insured by Third Parties, June 1997 Surety Claims Institute, with Joseph J. Brenstrom
- Only The Hits! 20 Top Cases Relating to Fidelity and Crime Insurance, June 1997 Surety Claims Institute, with David T. DiBiase
- Fidelity Claims and Bankruptcy, June 1995 Surety Claims Institute, with Gary J. Valeriano
- California Bar Association
- Member
- Nevada State Bar Association
- Clark County Bar Association
- Colorado Bar Association
- Member
- InterPacific Bar Association
- California Mortgage Bankers Association
- American Bar Association
- Los Angeles Superior Court - Mediation & Arbitration Panel, Pro-Bono and Party Pay Panels
- Japanese
- Spanish
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