Sonoma County Bar Association

 

 Advising Fire-Victim Clients An Overview

 

 Topics of Discussion Include:

~ What Insurance policy advice to give my clients?
~ How does my client deal with their Mortgage/ bank now their house is gone?
~ Does my client owe rent on their burned down rental property?
~ My client’s will or trust was burned up in the fire, what to do?
~ What is a mass tort and how do they work?
~ How are mass tort individual claims handled?
~ What are my clients’ rights to recover against PG&E for fire losses?
~ How to advise a client about Under Insured and bad faith insurance claims?

 

 

Roy E. Miller
Hansen & Miller Law Firm

 

Mr. Miller graduated CA Western School of Law in San Diego and was admitted to the California bar in 1994. In his early years as an attorney, Roy practiced civil litigation in San Diego. He then relocated to the Lake County District Attorney’s Office. After five years as a prosecutor in Lake County, Mr. Miller joined Monte L. Hansen in Santa Rosa forming Hansen & Miller Law Firm. This firm handles criminal defense and civil litigation. Their focus includes wrongful death, personal injury and property damage cases. Roy Miller has handled numerous cases where fire was the primary cause of property damage and injuries. As a victim of the Tubbs fire, he has a unique perspective and will discuss legal issues raised by his experience and his fire victim clients.

 

 

Mikal Carter Watts
Watts Guerra LLP

 

Mr. Watts is the founding Partner of Watts Guerra LLP. Mikal is a nationally known trial lawyer who has represented clients in all 50 states. He has vast experience in mass tort litigation. He tried the first Ford Explorer rollover cases and many bellwether trials in mass tort cases. Two months ago he was trying a case for 22,000 farmers seeking over $400 million. Mikal Watts firm filed the first wrongful death case from the Tubbs fire, and has filed a motion to coordinate the Sonoma County fire cases in Sonoma County. Mikal attended The University of Texas in Austin where he completed his undergraduate and law school. Following college, Mikal accepted a position working for The Honorable Thomas R. Phillips, Chief Justice Texas Supreme Court as a briefing attorney from 1989-1990. Mikal will discuss the mass tort process of filing individual claims in general, the anatomy of mass tort claims, and also provide information specific to the fire cases.

 

Date: Wednesday, December 20, 2017

 

Time: Check-In: 11:30 am; Presentation: 12:00—1:15 pm

 

Presenter(s):
Roy E. Miller, Hansen & Miller Law Firm

Mikal Carter Watts, Watts Guerra LLP

 

Place: SCBA Office, 111 Santa Rosa Ave., Ste. 222, Santa Rosa, CA 95404.

 

NOTE: Parking for this seminar is ONLY available in the Public Parking Garage at 555 First Street at rate of $.75 per hour. Please do not park in the parking lot at 111 Santa Rosa Avenue

 

Registration Fee: $60–SCBA Members; $75–Public

 

MCLE: 1.25 Units Participatory Credit in General Law

 

Student: $20 (The student discount is now available online for SCBA Student Members. Students who are not members of SCBA may utilize the student discount by downloading the registration form and submitting it with proof of current enrollment to the SCBA Offices. For more information on becoming a member of SCBA, please contact Susan Demers at (707) 542-1190 ext. 18.)

 

 

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