Steven F. Casey is a Partner in the Firm's Product Liability & Casualty Litigation Practice Group and is also a member of our Environmental Litigation Practice Group.  Mr. Casey has a great deal of jury trial experience, having tried over 50 jury trials and many more non-jury cases, representing plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of matters, including electrical contact injury, pharmaceuticals, environmental, toxic tort, fraud, bad faith, arson & fire loss, breach of contract, real estate, ERISA, and securities fraud cases.  More specifically:

• In the electric utility industry, Mr. Casey has represented a number of utilities in cases involving claims for severe injuries or wrongful death as a result of persons coming into contact with overhead power lines.
• For a number of years, Mr. Casey has served as National Counsel for a pharmaceutical manufacturer in all cases involving one of its product lines.
• Mr. Casey also defends pharmaceutical manufacturers in cases brought by the attorneys general of several states claiming fraud in the pricing of drugs for sale to Medicaid patients.
• Mr. Casey has significant experience in mass tort cases defending against environmental and toxic tort claims.
• Mr. Casey has for years served as regional counsel for a nationally known insurance client, defending it in all disability and life insurance litigation brought against it in Alabama.
• Mr. Casey also regularly represents a major client of the Firm's on complex reservoir management matters, involving the application of real estate law, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission requirements and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regulations.
• Mr. Casey has also defended a national financing client in class action matters involving claims of fraud and breach of contract in connection with mortgage foreclosures.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• • Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel
    
  • American Bar Association, Vice Chairman & Newsletter Editor - Product Liability Committee of the Tort & Insurance Practice Section, 1983-1985
    
  • Alabama State Bar, Community Education Committee, 2004
    
  • Birmingham Bar Association, Chair, Grievance Committee, 2001; Chair, Law Day Committee, 1985
    
  • Christian Legal Society, State Membership Director, 1996-2000; President, Christian Legal Society of Alabama, 1995
    
  • National Institute of Trial Advocacy, Graduate
    
  • Defense Research Institute (DRI)
    
  • Alabama Defense Lawyers Association

  

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