Steve Rawls is a Partner at Butler Pappas. Steve heads up the firm's liability coverage practice. He handles liability coverage litigation throughout the United States. His practice focuses mainly upon construction defect, pollution, advertising injury, E&O, automobile and products liability coverage. He also represents clients in bad faith litigation and in catastrophic injury cases.

Steve often speaks at seminars about insurance coverage issues. His presentations have addressed a wide variety of issues, including, among other things, trigger, allocation, additional insured, and other risk transfer issues as well as bad faith issues such as handling multiple claimants, multiple insureds and the duty to initiate settlement negotiations. Steve routinely writes for treatises and other publications. His work has appeared in the Law and Practice of Insurance Coverage Litigation, the CGL Reporter and For the Defense, among other publications. He regularly writes for the International Risk Management Institute in his role as an expert commentator in the area of liability insurance.

Steve's clients include Zurich, Markel, Sentry, First Mercury, XL, Commonwealth and General Fidelity/Riverstone, among others.

Steve graduated in 1991 from the University of Florida College of Law. He is a member of The Florida Bar and the United States District Courts for the Middle and Northern Districts of Florida and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits. He belongs to several professional organizations, including the Defense Research Institute, the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance, and the Tort and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association.

Case Types

ADA

Admiralty - Coverage

Advertising Injury - Coverage

Americans with Disabilities Act - Coverage/Defense

Appellate

Asbestos

Bad Faith

Bodily Injury - Coverage

Boiler and Machinery - Coverage

BOP

Business Owner's - Coverage

Casualty Defense Litigation

Catastrophic Injuries

CCIP - Contractor Controlled Insurance Program

CGL

Chemicals - Environmental Liability

Chemicals - Toxic Tort

Civil Remedy Notices

Class Action

Commercial Lease Construction and Litigation

Commercial Litigation

Complex Liability Litigation

Construction Contract Administration

Construction Defect Litigation

Construction Defect Litigation - Bonds

Construction Defect Litigation - Design

Construction Defect Litigation - Earth Movement

Construction Defect Litigation - EIFS

Construction Defect Litigation - Excess Claims

Construction Defect Litigation - Indemnity Claims

Construction Defect Litigation - Roof

Construction Defect Litigation - Sinkholes

Construction Defect Litigation - Stucco

Construction Defect Litigation - Subsidence

Construction Defect Litigation - Windows

Construction Liens

Contractor Controlled Insurance Program

Contribution Claims

Copyright Infringement

Coverage - Advertising Injury

Coverage - Bodily Injury

Coverage - Business Owner's

Coverage - First Party Automobile

Coverage - Homeowner's

Coverage - Personal Injury

Crop Losses

Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices

Environmental - Contamination Liability

Environmental - Hazardous Waste Liability

Environmental Liability - Chemicals

Environmental Liability - Mold

Environmental Litigation

Excess Coverage

Extracontractual Claims

Federal Multi-District Litigation

Fidelity

Fidelity and Surety

General Casualty Litigation

General Liability - Coverage

Healthcare Insurance Fraud

HO

Homeowner's - Coverage

Homeowner's - Insurance

Housing Authority Liability

Indemnity Claims

Inland Marine - Coverage

Insurance Coverage

Insurance Fraud

Intellectual Property

Isocyanates - Environmental Liability

Isocyanates - Toxic Tort

Malicious Prosecution

Mass Torts

MDL - Mass Torts

Medical Malpractice

Mold - Environmental Liability

Mold - Toxic Tort

Multi-District Litigation

Negligent Hiring

Negligent Security - Violent Crimes

Negligent Supervision

OCIP - Owner Controlled Insurance Program

Owner Controlled Insurance Program - OCIP

Patent Litigation

Personal Injury - Coverage

Personal Injury Protection

PIP

Premises Liability

Products Liability

Professional Liability

Professional Malpractice - Engineering/Architecture

Professional Malpractice - Medical

Professional Malpractice - Municipal Liability

Reinsurance Coverage

Slander

Surety

Surety Bond

Third Party Coverage Issues

Toxic Tort - Chemicals

Toxic Tort - Isocyanates

Toxic Tort - Mold

Toxic Torts

UIM

UM

Underinsured Motorist

Uninsured Motorist Claims

Warsaw Convention

Workers' Compensation

Wraps