Daniel W. Berglund
Experience
- Practice includes nationwide property loss litigation arising from fires and explosions caused by a wide range of product and construction practices.
- Experienced in catastrophic property loss, including fires, explosions, hurricanes, floods and other weather-related losses, equipment failures, production facility losses, and losses caused by negligent design and construction.
- Practice also focuses on coverage disputes on behalf of insureds and insurers, and litigation for subrogated insurers as well as individuals and corporations.
- Represents businesses in national and international contract disputes.
Outside Experience
- Law Clerk to the Honorable Edward Toussaint, Chief Judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals (2003-2004)
- Judicial Extern to the Honorable Michael Davis, U.S. District Court (2003)
Selected Results*
Multi-million dollar recovery for property owner and its insurer in negligent design and construction action arising from "fuse plug" failure and subsequent dam collapse in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Recovery for Fortune 500 company in intellectual property insurance coverage dispute.
Summary judgment for industrial product manufacturer in product liability action arising from plant explosion in Indiana.
Involved in major property recovery actions for insurers and their insureds.
Mudlin v. Hills Co.: 2007 SD 118 (S.D. 2007) The South Dakota Supreme Court upheld an insurer's right to challenge fairly debatable insurance claims without being liable for the tort of ‘bad faith'.
Languages
Memberships
- Minnesota State Bar Association
- Ramsey County Bar Association
Bar Admissions
- Minnesota
- U.S. District Court, Colorado
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Minnesota
- U.S. District Court, North Dakota
Education
- William Mitchell College of Law, J.D., magna cum laude (2003); Editor of the William Mitchell Law Review (2002-2003); Staff Member (2001-2002)
- University of Minnesota, B.A., Journalism (2000); French (1996)
Articles
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Applying the Attorney-Client Privilege to Investigations Involving Attorneys: What is Fair Game in Discovery?
The Attorney-Client Privilege in Civil Litigation (4th ed. A.B.A. 2008) Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section
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Taking the "I" Out of Suicide: The Minnesota Supreme Court's Alarming Extension of Duty in "Exceptional Relationships"
28 W. Mitchell L. Rev. 1307 (2002)
Selected Speeches
Excluding the Expert Witness in a Fire Case
Effectively Handling Fire Litigation, Minnesota State Bar Association CLE, (May 7, 2007) (with William Webster)