Darren A. Lossia

A member of the firm’s Bloomfield Hills office, Darren A. Lossia focuses his practice exclusively in the area of insurance coverage. Mr. Lossia represents insurance companies in complex insurance matters involving environmental contamination, commercial liability, and homeowners’ liability coverage.

Prior to joining Plunkett Cooney, Mr. Lossia gained extensive experience in all aspects of claims management involving commercial general liability and liquor liability policies, managing insurance litigation, negotiating settlements and providing legal opinions regarding policy coverage issues.  

Representative Client Work

• Representation of insurance carriers in complex coverage litigation involving environmental contamination
• Drafting declaratory judgment complaints based on policy defenses such as notice, “occurrence” and intentional acts
• Drafting coverage opinions involving claims based on “personal injury” and “advertising injury” under the standard commercial general liability policy
• Negotiated settlements in personal injury cases involving alleged statutory violations of liquor liability laws in multiple jurisdictions

Professional Affiliations

• State Bar of Michigan
• American Bar Association                   

Publications and Lectures

• “Michigan’s Liquor Liability Law,” speaker, Olivet College, March 2006
• “Negotiating Settlements in Civil Litigation,” speaker, Albion College, April 2006

Publications

• Personal Auto ‘Business-Use’ Exclusion Trumps Michigan’s No-Fault Law
• Flood Exclusion Upheld in Louisiana “Hurricane Katrina” Claims

News

• Lossia joins Plunkett Cooney’s Insurance Practice Group