Practice Areas

West Virginia Business Litigation and Insurance Defense Lawyers

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Alternative Dispute Resolution

Our ADR lawyers serve businesses and insurance companies throughout West Virginia. ADR can be effectively utilized to resolve workplace disputes, labor/management issues, environmental and public policy issues, health care disputes, family business concerns, and insurance coverage disputes.

Asbestos Claims

Pullin Fowler & Flanagan has been engaged in the defense of asbestos clients since the mid 1980’s. The firm serves as national coordinating and trial counsel for Lockheed Martin Corporation, and serves as local counsel for various other defendants.

Auto Accident Defense

The law firm of Pullin, Fowler, Flanagan, Brown & Poe, PLLC handle all areas of automobile liability defense. Our attorneys represent insurance companies, municipalities, corporations, and the people they insure. Our experience and hard-line defense has consistently exceeded client expectations and contributed to our reputation as a leader in West Virginia automobile insurance defense litigation.

Auto Dealerships

Our automobile dealership attorneys have represented automobile dealerships in hundreds of lawsuits and thousands of claims involving fraud, breach of express warranty, breach of implied warranty, Truth-In-Lending, West Virginia Consumer Credit Protection Act, and the Uniform Commercial Code.

Civil Rights Claims

Our civil rights lawyers have expertise in the area of federal civil rights claims and state constitutional claims. This expertise enables us to aggressively and successfully defend our clients, which include the State of West Virginia as well as townships, municipalities, cities, and governmental entities throughout every county within the state.

Commercial Liability

The attorneys of Pullin, Fowler, Flanagan, Brown & Poe, PLLC are skilled in trial litigation. We have successfully argued and won complete defense verdicts on behalf of numerous clients. In addition to litigation, our lawyers also are able to prevent potential lawsuits and trials through early use of mediation and arbitration, thereby saving our clients time and money.

Construction Law

Few areas of business draw more claims, disputes, and conflicts than construction projects. The law firm of Pullin, Fowler, Flanagan, Brown & Poe, PLLC has honed our construction practice to provide sound legal advice and litigation skills to assist a variety of parties at most every turn of the construction process.

Corporate and Business Law

Our Corporate and Business Law practice is focused on partnering with the small and medium sized businesses to assist them with risk management, contract interpretation, and when needed, litigation.  The main goal is to help business owners identify and manage risks.  We do this by getting to know the business owner, learn how the business works, and then provide counseling and training to the owner(s) and employees.  Whether this includes reviewing conrtacts to ensure they are protected, or by providing training on employment matters, we assist in creating an atmosphere for their business to operate without interruption of legal problems.

When litigation arises, Pullin, Fowler, Flanagan, Brown & Poe, PLLC has experience in handling contract disputes involving the sale of goods, construction contracts, employment agreements, buy-sell agreements, partnership agreements, and many other areas that effect business.  At the center of this representation is our interaction with the client, making sure we understand his concerns about litigation and then based on that understanding of his goals, provide effective recommendations to achieve the resolution he desires.

Coverage Opinions

As the world of insurance coverage continually expands, so does the number of questions regarding an insurance policy’s application to any finite set of facts. These unique coverage scenarios require a global understanding of insurance law, which the coverage opinion lawyers of Pullin, Fowler, Flanagan, Brown & Poe, PLLC can provide.

Education Law

Pullin, Fowler, Flanagan, Brown & Poe, PLLC is recognized as one of the up and coming leaders in West Virginia in the field of educational law. In addition to school boards, our statewide coverage enables us to represent many of the higher education institutions in West Virginia, including West Virginia University, Potomac State University, Mountain State University, and Concord College.

Employment Law

Our employment law attorneys have successfully defended many businesses and governmental agencies over the years before the West Virginia Human Rights Commission and the Workers' Compensation Commission at both the state and federal level.

Environmental Law

The environmental law attorneys of Pullin, Fowler, Flanagan, Brown & Poe, PLLC have a great deal of experience defending businesses in a variety of industries in claims involving environmental law issues. Environmental law has many facets, including water contamination, air pollution, and flooding.

Insurance Bad Faith Claims

The insurance bad-faith lawyers at Pullin, Fowler, Flanagan, Brown & Poe, PLLC provide a range of services to insurers, including in-house training and seminars, as well as consulting with their insurer clients prior to the inception of litigation regarding issues of insurer bad faith and insurance coverage.

Insurance Law

The foundation of Pullin, Fowler, Flanagan, Brown & Poe, PLLC lies in its relationship with the insurance industry. Our lawyers are dedicated to serving the needs of both the insurance provider and the insured client.

Labor Law

West Virginia has a rich history of the development of relations between organized labor and management. However, the presence of organized labor imposes upon management a specialized set of rules and regulations that must be addressed. The labor law lawyers of Pullin, Fowler, Flanagan, Brown & Poe, PLLC are focused on providing employers with comprehensive training, evaluation, and defense of issues and actions related to this specialized field of law.

Legal Malpractice

Our lawyers regularly defend attorneys in West Virginia and Kentucky from allegations and claims of legal malpractice.

Local Government

When defending governmental entities, our attorneys call upon their expertise and knowledge of the West Virginia Governmental Tort Claims and Insurance Reform Act, Federal Civil Rights Acts, and other statutory regulations that provide specific immunities to our municipal clients. Many West Virginia cases that are pivotal in providing immunities and defenses to governmental entities and employees were litigated, in both circuit courts and before the West Virginia Supreme Court, by the attorneys with the firm.

Manufactured Housing

Our lawyers have represented manufactured housing manufacturers and retailers before the West Virginia Manufactured Housing Safety and Construction Standards Board of the West Virginia Division of Labor and in both federal and state courts throughout West Virginia.

Medical Malpractice

Recent West Virginia legislation has had a direct and favorable impact upon claims against hospitals and physicians in this state. However, health care providers must still face the dangers and uncertainties of medical professional liability actions. Our medical malpractice defense attorneys are skilled in meeting the current issues facing healthcare providers practicing in West Virginia.

Premises Liability

Pullin, Fowler, Flanagan, Brown & Poe, PLLC has extensive experience representing property owners, landlords and tenants, both public and private, in lawsuits seeking compensation for alleged slip/trip and fall, physical and sexual assault, product contamination and poisoning, violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), libel, slander, wrongful detention, illegal arrest, and malicious prosecution.

Products Liability

Pullin, Fowler, Flanagan, Brown & Poe, PLLC, PLLC has a long tradition of representing products manufacturers in West Virginia including power tools, pharmaceuticals, tobacco companies, paint manufacturers, dry cleaners, mining companies and mine equipment manufacturers and large corporations sued for asbestos containing products.  We recognize the distinct laws that relate to products cases and have been able to successfully represent manufacturers in West Virginia, a traditional plaintiffs jurisdiction.  We are also representing clients with cases referred to the mass tort panel in West Virginia so we are familiar with the rules and unique practice of law required in this arena.

The Firm serves as national coordinating counsel in asbestos cases so we are also familiar with  mass tort / product cases on a national scale with important contacts in all major jurisdictions.  We would be happy to assist you with your products liability cases.

Risk Management

Preventative and effective risk management is the cornerstone of any successful business venture. At the law firm of Pullin, Fowler, Flanagan, Brown & Poe, PLLC, our attorneys apply a client-focused approach to maintaining the ultimate goals of your business through protecting your business and employees from legal liability.

Toxic Torts

Our attorneys have represented defendants in toxic tort cases ranging from single-plaintiff cases involving chemical exposure such as Benzene or Toluene, to class action suits involving multiple chemical sensitivity cases and exposure to pesticides.

Workers' Compensation

It is our belief that superior workers’ compensation legal representation is only one facet of an effective workers’ compensation claims strategy. An effective strategy requires a team approach which includes the constant communication between our workers’ compensation defense lawyers and the employer’s safety department, human resources department, the employer’s workers’ compensation administrator, and the insurance carriers’ claims administrator. The goal of such a strategy is to minimize overall claim costs through effective claims management, continuous claims monitoring, and when necessary, effective litigation, thus reducing premium rates for insured clients and claims costs for self-insured clients.

For more information, contact a Pullin, Fowler, Flanagan, Brown & Poe, PLLC attorney.