Chip Cox is an associate at Greenan, Peffer, Sallander & Lally whose practice emphasizes insurance coverage and commercial litigation.
Chip has more than 15 years experience assisting policyholders and insurance companies evaluate their coverage rights and obligations and litigating coverage disputes. His experience includes Commercial General Liability insurance coverage, specifically including claims for construction defects, environmental contamination, bodily injury and property damage claims in various circumstances, and disputes regarding coverage for advertising injury and personal injury as applied to a wide variety of claims, including antitrust, unfair business practices, patent infringement, trade secret disputes, trespass and environmental contamination.
His experience also includes Directors’ & Officers’ and Professional Liability insurance coverage for various wrongful acts.
Chip also has experience assisting companies negotiating and arbitrating or litigating assorted commercial contract disputes, including sales and vendor agreements, purchase agreements, and licensing and trade secret disputes.
EDUCATION
J.D., 1991 cum laude, University of Michigan
B.S. Economics, 1988 cum laude, University of Utah
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
California State Bar
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
United States District Court for the Northern, Eastern and Central Districts of California
Bar Association of San Francisco
Contra Costa County Bar Association
Defense Research Institute
REPORTED DECISIONS
Everett Associates, Inc. v. Transcontinental Ins. Co., 159 F.Supp.2d 1196 (N.D. Cal. 2001)(no claim for negligence or negligent infliction of emotional distress for breach of duty to defend absent claim for bad faith).
McGranahan v. The Insurance Corporation of New York, 544 F.Supp.2d 1052 (E.D. Cal. 2008)(duty to defend construction defect claim).
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