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Practice Areas
- Appellate Advocacy
- Class Actions
- Complex Litigation
- Environmental
- Insurance Coverage
- Reinsurance
- Subrogation
Education
- University of Minnesota Law School, JD, 1959; Law Publication: University of Minnesota Law Review, Member, Board of Editors, 1958-1959
- University of Minnesota, BA, 1956
Bar and Court Admissions
- State Court: Minnesota
- U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits
- U.S. District Court: District of Minnesota
Lawrence Zelle
Larry co-founded the firm in 1988 and was co-managing partner until 1999. Larry has extensive experience in virtually every area of insurance law. He has been involved in the resolution of a variety of coverage issues between policyholder/insurer, insurer/insurer and cedent/reinsurer. He has handled coverage disputes and/or bad faith claims involving almost every type of property policy, including boiler & machinery, business interruption, HPR forms, excess and surplus lines, fidelity, and various broker or company authored manuscript forms. Larry has been involved in coverage litigation, arbitration or trial/appeal throughout the United States and many foreign countries and has also been lead counsel in numerous subrogation cases, particularly claims arising out of large industrial losses. He has participated in drafting revisions or modifications to insurance contracts on behalf of clients. Larry frequently speaks at seminars, conducts workshops and has served on several industry panels dealing with general and specific insurance related issues.
Articles & Presentations
"Recurring Problems with Concurrent Causation: Do Judicial Interpretations Clarify or Confuse?," 2012 DRI Insurance Coverage and Claims Institute, Chicago, Illinois, March 28-30, 2012, presenter
Professional Affiliations
- Property Loss Research Bureau
- Loss Executives Association
- Defense Research Institute
- Federation of Insurance and Corporate Counsel
- International Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Minnesota State Bar Association
Noteworthy
Larry is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
