About the Editors and Authors

• Library: Insurance Law in Virginia (Virginia CLE) (2020 Ed.)

ABOUT THE EDITORS AND AUTHORS

EDITORS:

John M. Claytor, Harman Claytor Corrigan & Wellman, P.C., Richmond.
John M. Claytor, co-editor of this handbook, primarily concentrates his practice in property, bad faith and insurance coverage, and dispute litigation. He earned a B.S. in 1976 from the University of Virginia and a J.D. in 1979 from the University of Richmond, where he was a member of the Law Review and the McNeill Law Society. Mr. Claytor was admitted to the Virginia State Bar in 1979 and has been admitted to the federal district and appellate courts in Virginia. He is a member of the Richmond, Henrico County, Federal, and American Bar Associations, the Virginia State Bar (Member, Special Committee to Study the Virginia State Bar's Future Role in Lawyer Malpractice Insurance, 1989), the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys (Immediate Past President, 1994-1995), and the Defense Research Institute (State Chairman, 1988-1992; DRI Exceptional Performance Citation Award 1994). Mr. Claytor is also a member of the Federation of Insurance and Corporate Counsel, the International Association of Defense Counsel, Claims & Litigation Management Alliance, and a past member of the Steering Committee of the Boyd-Graves Conference. He was awarded the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys' Robert M. Furniss, Jr. Award in 1994. He has been honored by Virginia Super Lawyers, Insurance Coverage (2007-2014), Top 50 Lawyers in Virginia (2008), Top 100 Lawyers in Virginia (2013 & 2014), Virginia Super Lawyers, Business Edition, Insurance Coverage (2009-2014), Best Lawyers in America, Insurance Law (2007-2015), Lawyer of the Year— Richmond, Virginia—Insurance Law (2014), and is Martindale-Hubbell AV Rated. Mr. Claytor is an author and frequent lecturer on insurance coverage and property topics.

John D. Eure, Johnson, Ayers & Matthews, P.L.C., Roanoke.
John D. Eure, co-editor of this handbook, is a member of the Roanoke law firm of Johnson, Ayers & Matthews, P.L.C. He is a member of the Virginia State Bar, The Virginia Bar Association, the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, and the American Bar Association. He chairs the Board of Editors of The Journal of Civil Litigation, a quarterly journal published by the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys. Mr. Eure has lectured in continuing legal education seminars on appellate practice, legal writing, and insurance coverage matters and has lectured in the Roanoke City Public Schools on Shakespeare, the Restoration, and Eighteenth Century British literature. He earned a B.A., magna cum laude, from Yale University and an M.A. and J.D. from the University of Virginia.

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AUTHORS:

Phillip V. Anderson, Frith Anderson & Peake PC, Roanoke.
Phillip V. Anderson, co-author of Chapter 9, is President and founding member of Frith Anderson & Peake PC in Roanoke. He was admitted to the Virginia State Bar in 1984. He earned a B.A., magna cum laude, from Hampden-Sydney College in 1980 and a J.D. from the University of Virginia in 1984. He served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Jackson L. Kiser, United States District Court, Western District of Virginia from 1984 until 1985. Mr. Anderson's practice includes general liability litigation, commercial litigation, products liability, and personal injury litigation. In addition to his trial practice, he regularly provides opinions on insurance coverage issues and represents insurers in coverage litigation. He represents insurers at all stages of first-party fraud actions, from investigation of suspicious claims to the trial of fraud actions in state and federal courts. Mr. Anderson has tried cases in state and federal courts throughout western and central Virginia. He has handled appeals to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the Supreme Court of Virginia. He frequently lectures on insurance coverage issues and trial techniques.

Mr. Anderson served as the 67th President of the Virginia State Bar. His involvement with the Virginia State Bar has been extensive, with service on the Bar Council, Executive Committee, and Budget and Finance Committee and as a faculty member of the VSB's Professionalism Course, past member of the Malpractice Insurance Committee, past member of the Standing Committee on Professionalism, and past Chair of the Virginia State Bar's Eighth District Disciplinary Committee. He currently serves on the Client Protection Fund Board.

Mr. Anderson is a member of the Virginia Law Foundation, permanent member of the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference, and past President of the Ted Dalton American Inn of Court. Mr. Anderson has been active in numerous local civic and charitable bodies. He is a member of Grandin Court Baptist Church of Roanoke.

James W. Barkley, Morin & Barkley LLP, Charlottesville.
James W. Barkley, co-author of Chapter 16, is a founding partner of Morin & Barkley LLP, where he has focused a substantial portion of his practice on complex litigation involving construction, insurance coverage, products liability, and commercial litigation. Since 2016, Mr. Barkley has devoted the majority of his practice to serving as a mediator. He has mediated a wide variety of disputes across Virginia, including construction, insurance coverage, real estate, commercial, and personal injury and property damage liability matters. He is admitted to practice in North Carolina, Virginia, and

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the District of Columbia. He speaks and writes frequently on construction and insurance coverage issues. Mr. Barkley earned a B.A. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a J.D., with honors, from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Jordan K. Bowman, Litten & Sipe, LLP, Harrisonburg.
Jordan K. Bowman, co-author of Chapter 8, is a partner in the Harrisonburg firm of Litten & Sipe, L.L.P. Mr. Bowman is a 2014 graduate of the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary. He also earned a Master of Public Policy degree from the College of William and Mary. Mr. Bowman represents individuals, businesses, and governmental entities in tort litigation and contract disputes, and he serves as general counsel to a regional transit program. Virginia Business magazine has named Mr. Bowman as one of Virginia's Legal Elite, and he is a member of the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Bar Association (President 2020-2021).

Mark G. Carlton, Harman Claytor Corrigan & Wellman, P.C., Richmond.
Mark G. Carlton, co-author of Chapters 4 and 9, was born in Roanoke, Virginia. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, in 1996 from Virginia Commonwealth University and his J.D., magna cum laude, in 1999 from the George Mason University School of Law. He was admitted to the Virginia State Bar in 1999 and has also been admitted to the United States District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Carlton began his legal career as law clerk for the Circuit Court for the City of Norfolk. He joined Harman Claytor in August of 2000 and is a member of the Virginia, Richmond, and Henrico County Bar Associations, the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, and the Defense Research Institute. He concentrates his practice on insurance coverage litigation and has written and lectured on various aspects of Virginia insurance law.

Brian N. Casey, TaylorWalker PC, Virginia Beach.
Brian N. Casey, co-author of Chapter 6, earned a B.A. from the College of William and Mary in 1982 and a J.D. from Emory University in 1986. He was admitted to the Virginia Bar in 1986 and served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Joseph E. Baker, Court of Appeals of Virginia. He is admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, and the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia. Mr. Casey is a member of the Boyd-Graves Conference and a past president of the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys.

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Mark K. Cathey, Glenn Robinson Cathey Memmer & Skaff PLC, Roanoke.
Mark K. Cathey, co-author of Chapter 8, is a partner with Glenn Robinson Cathey Memmer & Skaff PLC, where his practice is focused on insurance law and personal injury litigation. He has tried more than 130 jury trials to verdict in twenty-three Virginia jurisdictions and in federal courts and has argued insurance and personal injury cases before the Supreme Court of Virginia. He has a B.A. from the University of Virginia (1990) and a J.D. from Washington and Lee University School of Law (1993). He is a member and past president of the Roanoke Bar Association and a member of the Virginia State Bar (Member, Bar Council, 2010-2016), the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, and the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys. Mr. Cathey is AV rated...