James V. Chin
Experience
- Practice focuses primarily on representing business insurers. Has 15 years complex litigation experience including coverage matters involving property and liability insurance, and subrogation matters involving fires, construction losses and other industrial accidents.
Outside Experience
- In-house counsel, Division of Student Affairs, University of Georgia (1998-2001)
Selected Results*
$20 million dispute involving mold in apartment complex in Florida
$6 million dispute involving damage to frozen food product in North Carolina
$12 million dispute involving loss of hospital supplies in Tennessee
$1 million claim from negligence and breach of contract arising out of contractor's failure to properly deliver and install a loom at a textile plant in South Carolina
$7 million dispute involving damage to building facade in Georgia
$5 million dispute involving damage to steel furnace in Alabama
Bar Admissions
- Georgia
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Georgia
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia
Education
- University of Georgia School of Law, J.D. (1993)
- University of Georgia, B.A., cum laude (1988)
Articles
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The Eleventh Circuit Clarifies the Initial Burden in a Motion for Summary Judgment
26 Ga. L. Rev. 1009 (1992)
Selected Speeches
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Business Interruption Claims: Manufacturing Losses
Property Loss Research Bureau, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, Washington
(March 22-25, 2009)
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Business Interruption: Manufacturing Losses
Property Loss Research Bureau, Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel
(March 18-21, 2007)
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Common Mistakes by Students Seeking a Law Career
Southern Region Black Law Students Association, Birmingham, Alabama
(September 15, 2006)
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PLRB / LIRB Nashville Claims Conference: Business Interruption: Manufacturing Losses
Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, Nashville, TN
(April 2-5, 2006)
- Business Interruption: Manufacturing Losses
Property Loss Research Bureau (PLRB) Claims Conference (April 2005) - Navigating the Legal Minefields: Staying Out of Trouble and Staying Out of Court! Critical Issues in Judicial Affairs
32nd Annual Conference on Higher Education and the Law (July 2001)