David A. Dworetsky

David A. Dworetsky is a member of the firm’s Bloomfield Hills office and Insurance Law Practice Group. He handles a variety of matters for insurance carriers, including coverage opinions and declaratory judgment actions.

Mr. Dworetsky’s coverage work concentrates on the representation of primary and excess insurers involved in complex, high-exposure environmental contamination, defective products, construction defect, and personal and advertising injury coverage matters, both during and pre-litigation.

Mr. Dworetsky also counsels clients in the areas of Michigan no fault law and motor vehicle litigation.

Representative Client Work

• Defending insurers in complex coverage litigation involving extensive underlying environmental contamination in Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia, Missouri and Michigan.
• Defending insurers in personal and advertising injury coverage matters in Wisconsin, Kentucky, and Michigan.
• Obtained summary judgment in Indiana for insurer as to the recovery of pre-tender costs.
• Obtained summary disposition for insurer in an advertising injury coverage matter, upheld by the Michigan Supreme Court
• Obtained summary judgment in the Western District of Kentucky for the reimbursement of a settlement contribution, in a personal injury liability coverage matter
• Assisted in a no cause of action jury trial, finding no coverage for a $1,500,000 coverage claim pursuant to the care, custody and control exclusion
• Obtained summary disposition for an insurer in a contractual indemnity matter.

Notable Cases

• Citizens Gas, and Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company---Manufactured Gas Plant Environmental Property Damage Litigation
• Cinergy---Air Emission Litigation
• Dreaded---Environmental Property Damage Litigation
• Proseal---Advertising Injury Coverage Litigation
• Hillerich & Bradsby Co.---Personal Injury Liability Coverage Litigation 
• Plastipak---Employer Intentional Injury Litigation
• Flint Distributing---Property Damage Litigation

Professional Affiliations

• Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association
• State Bar of Michigan (Environmental Law and Negligence sections)
• American Bar Association (Tort and Insurance Practice Section)

Publications

• Note, Premises Liability, “Lugo v Ameritech Corp., Inc, and Joyce v. Rubin: Michigan Courts Continue to Expand the Application of the Open and Obvious Danger Doctrine” University of Detroit Mercy School of Law Review

Publications

• Minnesota Supreme Court Issues Decision On Pro Rata Allocation Of Indemnity Costs