Employment, Insurance & 
Professional Liability


Subrogation Recoveries-Who Gets Paid First?...

Reminder To All Insurance Carriers: Requirement To File Compliance Report Regarding Special Investigative Units...

Bad Law for Excess Carriers...




 
   
 

JOHN B. HOOK

Partner Mr. Hook, maintains an active litigation practice which emphasizes all aspects of insurance litigation including first and third party coverage disputes, defense of bad faith actions and large property damage subrogation cases.

Education

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Cambridge, Massachusetts J.D., 1955

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Massachusetts A.B., Government, 1952

Professional Organizations and Activities

Member: State Bar of California (Committee on Administration of Justice; Insurance Committee; Continuing Education of the Bar Joint Advisory Committee, Past Chairman; Trial Practice Subcommittee, Past Chairman; Continuing Education of the Bar Special Subcommittee on Programs and Assessment, Past Chairman); Bar Association of San Francisco (Continuing Education Committee, Past Chairman; Board of Directors, Past Member; Trial Lawyers Section); American Bar Association (Property Insurance Law Committee; Litigation Section-Tort and Insurance Practice); San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association; Consumer Attorneys of California; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; American Judicature Society; Northern California Association of Defense Counsel; Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel (Past Chairman, Property Insurance Section; Past Editor, Update Magazine); Defense Research Institute (Insurance Coverage Committee).

Publications

Author: "Subrogation Recoveries -- Who Gets Paid First?" Legal Ledger, Vol. 6, No. 6, 1995. 

Co-Author: "Reminder To All Insurance Carriers: Requirement To File Compliance Report Regarding Special Investigative Units," Underwriter's Report, September 29, 1994. 

Author: "Bad Law for Excess Carriers," FICC Quarterly, Spring 1987; Commercial Union v. Safeway Stores.

Author: "Multiple Policy Period Losses and Liability Under First Party Policies," Tort and Insurance Law Journal, 1986. 

Co-author: "Use of Discovery Materials," California Civil Procedure During Trial, 1982. 

Author: "Actual Cash Value-Fair Market Value," Insurance Law Journal, 1971.

Author: "Risk of Loss-Property Insurance," reprinted from California Real Estate Sales Transactions, 1967

Personal

Born: Brooklyn, New York

 

   

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