Mr. Gallaway's primary areas of practice are litigation defense, professional liability,insurance defense, municipal law, and labor and employment law.
Representative Experience
· Lead counsel in numerous cases involving personal injury, wrongful death, catastrophic injury and product liability
· Lead counsel for numerous insurers in cases involving first party and third party bad faith and violation of the Unfair Trade Practices Act, extracontractual disputes and coverage issues
· Lead counsel in numerous professional liability and construction-related cases, including successful defense of architects, engineers, contractors, attorneys and insurance agents
· Lead counsel for numerous businesses and employers in cases involving alleged deliberate intent
· Lead counsel in a statewide project initiated by a major insurance company to defend low impact, soft tissue personal injury cases
· Former assistant solicitor to large municipality and lead counsel for numerous municipalities under the Governmental Tort Claims and Insurance Reform Act
Affiliations
· Ohio County Bar Association
· Belmont County (Ohio) Bar Association
· West Virginia Bar Association
· Ohio State Bar Association
· Defense Research Institute
· Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia (Board of Governors 1995 - 2001)
· City of Wheeling Police Civil Service Commission
Reported Cases
· Strum v. Swanson, W. Va. Sup. Ct. No. 33285 (Oct. 26, 2007)
· Weller v. American Home Assurance Co., 2007 WL 1097883 (N.D. W. Va.)
· Parkette, Inc. v. Cornerstone Engineering, Inc., 617 S.E.2d 501 (W. Va. 2005)
· Weaver v. Edwin Shaw Hospital, 819 N.E.2d 1079 (Ohio 2004)
· Adams v. Consolidated Rail Corporation, 591 S.E.2d 269 (W. Va. 2003)
· Brown v. City of Wheeling, 569 S.E.2d.197 (W. Va. 2002)
· Trafalgar House Construction, Inc. v. ZMM, Inc., et al., 567 S.E.2d 294 (W. Va. 2002)
· Zelenka v. City of Weirton, 539 S.E.2d 750 (W. Va. 2000)
· Camastro v. City of Wheeling, 49 F. Supp. 2d 500 (N.D. W. Va. 1998)
· Jividen v. Law, 461 S.E.2d 451 (W. Va. 1995)
· Marshall v. Saseen, 450 S.E.2d 791 (W. Va. 1994)
· State ex rel. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Madden, 451 S.E.2d 721 (W. Va. 1994)