Danny Allen, Insurance Coverage Attorney, Plunkett Cooney Bloomfield Hills: business law and litigation defense services

Bio

A partner in the firm’s Bloomfield Hills office, Danny C. Allen focuses his practice in the area of insurance coverage.

As former house counsel for a major American insurance carrier, Mr. Allen has experience handling insurance-related claims involving homeowner liability, trucking liability, premises liability and general liability coverage, as well as related appeals. He serves as approved panel counsel for numerous national insurance companies.

In addition to his coverage practice, Mr. Allen has experience defending insured motorists, rental car companies and corporations in no-fault coverage disputes and motor vehicle negligence suits.

A member of the State Bar of Michigan since 2007, Mr. Allen received his law degree from Wayne State University Law School. He received his master’s degree from Roosevelt University in 2000 and his undergraduate degree from Albion College in 1996.

Representative Client Work

Serving as first chair, successfully tried a third-party bodily injury action to verdict in Wayne County Circuit Court
Argued and appealed, including writing applications for leave to the Michigan Supreme Court, claims involving personal protection insurance, bodily injury, negligent entrustment, premises liability, insurance reimbursement actions and procedural and evidentiary issues
Obtained summary judgment in a first-party personal protection insurance case that resulted in the dismissal of over $400,000 in medical expenses which were related to the plaintiff's failure to comply with the insurance policy’s and no-fault act’s coordination provisions
Provided legal advisory opinions for a variety of auto-insurance carriers on issues – such as self-funded ERISA plans, superior coordination provisions, and valid exclusions of auto-related injuries – where a health care plan would seek to avoid providing primary medical coverage to those injured in auto-accidents
Represented and defended a variety of clients, including personal and commercial insurance carriers, at the trial court level for claims involving personal protection insurance, bodily injury, uninsured/underinsured motorist, negligent entrustment, dog bites, premises liability and insurance reimbursement actions
Obtained summary judgment against the Michigan assigned claims plan’s assigned insurer on a statute of limitations issue, shielding the auto-insurer client from substantial exposure
Obtained summary judgment in matters involving insurance fraud where the insured intentionally misrepresented information to obtain benefits or to procure the policy of insurance
Obtained summary judgment in multiple premises liability/slip-and-fall cases
Obtained summary judgment in no-fault matters involving priority disputes among insurance carriers as well as other matters involving the payment of personal protection insurance benefits under the statute

Publications and Lectures

Preliminary Exams and Probable Cause: What’s Wrong Here?, Hon. Dennis N. Powers & Dan Allen, 88 Mich. B. J. 33, Sept., 2009
Advances in ABC relaxation: Applications and Inventories, (pp. 157-160), (pp. 161-164), (pp. 187-189), In J. C. Smith (Ed.)., New York 2001
The construction of and relationship between relaxation and stress state scales among hikers, Presenter, annual Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, IL, 2000