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Kirk Pasich

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Dickstein Shapiro LLP
2049 Century Park East, Suite 700
Los Angeles, California  90067-3109
(Los Angeles Co.)

Telephone: 310-772-8300
Fax: 310-772-8301
http://www.dicksteinshapiro.com



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Practice AreasInsurance Coverage; Appellate Practice; Entertainment Litigation; Commercial Litigation
 
UniversityUniversity of California at Los Angeles, B.A., Political Science, cum laude, 1977
 
Law SchoolLoyola Law School, Los Angeles, J.D., cum laude, 1980
 
Admitted1980, California; 1981, U.S. District Court, Central, Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts of California; 1982, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1992, U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit; 1997, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
 
MembershipsLos Angeles County (Trial Lawyers Section) and American (Tort and Insurance Practice Section; Forum on Sports and Entertainment Industries) Bar Associations; Defense Research Institute.
 
BornLa Jolla, California, May 26, 1955
 
BiographyMember, St. Thomas More Law Honor Society. Chief Ninth Circuit Editor, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, 1979-1980. Entertainment Law Columnist, 1988-1990 and Insurance Law Columnist, 1990—, Los Angeles Daily Journal and San Francisco Daily Journal. Member, Forum on Entertainment and Sports Industries, 1983—, Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee, Torts and Insurance Practice Section, 1989— and Task Force on Complex Insurance Coverage Litigation, 1990-1993, American Bar Association. Contributing Editor, West's California Litigation Forms: Civil Procedure Before Trial (1998). Co-Author and Editor: Manual for Complex Insurance Coverage Litigation (Aspen, 2004); Officers and Directors: Liabilities and Protections (Matthew Bender 2003); The Year 2000 and Beyond: Liabilities and Insurance for Computer Code Problems (CCH 2000). Author: Casualty and Liability Insurance (Matthew Bender 2003); and more than 400 articles. Speaker: American Bar Association Conferences; "Mealey's Insurance Conference," American Conference Institute; Practicing Law Institute, UCLA, Entertainment Law Symposium Conference and RIMS. Chairman, Board of Directors, The Woody Herman Foundation, 1988-1991. Member, Board of Directors, Constitutional Rights Foundation, 2000. Honors: Listed by California Law Business as one of the Top 25 Litigators in California, by Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers 2003, 2004, 2005 as "The Market Leader for Policy Holder Representation in California," by Lawdragon 2005 as one of the nation's 500 "Leading Lawyers,"and by The American Lawyer as one of the Nation's Top 45 Lawyers Under the Age of 45. Member: National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences; Risk and Insurance Management Society.
 
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"Ninth Circuit to Review California Federal Court Decision Approving of Non-recourse Premium Financing of Life Insurance"
Kirk Pasich, Michael T. Sharkey, Shaun H. Crosner, October 15, 2009
Lincoln National Life Insurance Company ("Lincoln") has appealed a recent California federal court decision validating a form of non-recourse premium financing of life insurance. In Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. v. Gordon R.A. Fishman Irrevocable Life Life Trust ("Lincoln...

Minimizing Losses from an Influenza Pandemic: Insurance Coverage Considerations
Erica J. Dominitz, Randy Paar, Kirk Pasich, Kenneth Berline Trotter, Barry Buchman, June 16, 2009
Recent reports that numerous human cases of Influenza A H1N1 infection (a/k/a "swine flu") have been confirmed in the United States and internationally are receiving increasing media attention and are causing levels of concern.

Insurance Coverage for Losses from Hurricane Katrina
Kirk Pasich, Barry J. Fleishman, Randy Paar, September 16, 2005
The scope of Hurricane Katrina's toll is not yet known. However, the financial damages are estimated to exceed $100 billion. Business closures include oil fields, oil refineries, stores, casinos, and public facilities. There have been extensive power losses, some of which are expected to last...


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