Gregg Hovious is a civil trial lawyer. He has tried many jury and
bench trials, arbitrated, and mediated several cases to conclusion,
and conducted numerous evidentiary and mediated hearings in civil and
administrative settings. His experience also includes involvement
with hundreds of depositions and successful mediations.
When Mr. Hovious
first began training to become a trial lawyer, he worked in the
insurance defense and healthcare litigation sections of a large
Louisville firm, where he obtained significant trial experience in
the first few years of his practice. He tried or assisted in the
trial of a wrongful death case, a tractor/trailer/pedestrian personal
injury case, a go-cart/products liability case, a construction
dispute, and various certificate of need matters before the Kentucky
Cabinet of Health Services. Mr. Hovious next worked in that firm's
corporate and commercial litigation group, focusing on the
representation of banks and lender liability actions, contract
disputes and corporate takeover and freeze-out merger litigation. He
also gained significant experience representing both plaintiffs and
defendants in ERISA, securities fraud, and construction law
litigation.
After helping found
the law firm of Fultz, Maddox, Hovious and Dickens, Mr. Hovious
focused his practice on commercial litigation. He has represented
both plaintiffs and defendants in contract, shareholder, ERISA,
banking, and healthcare disputes. For example, he obtained a
favorable settlement for a Fortune 100 bank client in lender
liability litigation, and he later was successful in trying a
construction law matter, obtaining a jury verdict that pierced the
corporate veil and recovered full damages against the owner of the
company. Mr. Hovious also represented 40 Kentucky hospitals in a
contract dispute in which a large regional health maintenance
organization unilaterally tried to change its contract with the
hospitals. After nearly two years of intense litigation in state
court, the parties reached a multimillion-dollar settlement agreement
in favor of the hospitals.
In 2001, Mr. Hovious
arbitrated a contract dispute on behalf of an improperly terminated
employee. The arbitrator awarded the firm's client $900,000, and
after discussion of additional jury claims, the case later settled
for more than $1.2 million. The arbitration award was for a breach
of an employment contract containing a liquidation clause and the
additional settlement arose out of extra contractual damages.
Mr. Hovious has also
negotiated a significant monetary settlement on behalf of a local
company that learned that two ex-employees had developed a
significant product while employed by the company but took that
product for their own use and benefit. After he meticulously
gathered evidence from telephone records and electronic
correspondence during discovery, he proved that the ex-employees had
testified falsely about their efforts and the case settled on the eve
of trial. Other significant commercial settlements include a
$550,000 settlement against an insurer arising out of the destruction
of the clients' warehoused goods in Saigon, a $500,000 contract case
involving the sale of environmentally unsound real estate, and
several injunction hearings involving employees' covenants not to
compete and fiduciary duties.
Mr. Hovious'
community activities have included serving as the President of the
Crescent Hill Community Counsel, member of the Friends of the
Louisville Zoo, and an ardent supporter of Ducks Unlimited.
Honors & Awards:
AV Preeminent® Peer
Review Rated by Martindale Hubbell®
Kentucky Super
Lawyers®
Best Lawyers in
America®, Commercial Litigation, Health Care Law; and Personal
Injury Litigation
2016 Louisville
Lawyer of the Year, Personal Injury Litigation
Benchmark
Litigation, the Guide to America's Leading Litigation Firms and
Attorneys, General Commercial Local Litigation Star
Chambers USA as a
leading lawyer in Litigation: General Commercial in Kentucky
Professional &
Community Activities:
Crescent Hill
Community Counsel, Former President
Friends of the
Louisville Zoo, Member
One-Act Play,
Author, 1999
