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Timestamp: 2019-04-19 00:20:28+00:00

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Bryan M. Shay is a Principal in the Firm’s Philadelphia and New Jersey offices, and a member of the Firm's Insurance Law Department. With a practice focused on insurance coverage and bad faith litigation, Mr. Shay advises and represents national clients in a variety of complex coverage and bad faith disputes arising from both commercial and personal insurance policies, including: CGL coverage claims (including construction defect/injury matters); property insurance claims; commercial and personal automobile claims; policyholder fraud; policy rescission; health, life, and disability insurance claims; ERISA litigation regarding benefit claims and challenges to health plans, fiduciary issues, and sophisticated preemption issues; annuity and structured settlement disputes; class action litigation; indemnity disputes between insurers; and bad faith claims.
Mr. Shay counsels and assists the Firm’s insurance clients in all aspects of coverage matters, such as analyzing insurance contracts; preparing coverage opinions and reservation of rights letters; litigating coverage disputes through declaratory judgment actions; and defending the Firm’s clients against bad faith and unfair trade practices claims. Mr. Shay has experience litigating in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; all federal district courts in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and the state trial courts in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Mr. Shay has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2010 - 2018 editions of Philadelphia Magazine’s “Pennsylvania Super Lawyer - Rising Stars,” a listing which includes the top 2.5 percent of attorneys in the Commonwealth who are 40 years of age or younger or have been practicing for less than 10 years. For information about this selection and an overview of common third-party publications, rankings, and lists methodologies, click here.
Prior to joining Post & Schell, Mr. Shay served as a law clerk to the Hon. Franklin S. Van Antwerpen of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
D'Elia v. Unum Life Ins. Co., 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 108169 (E.D. Pa. Aug. 15, 2016) (obtained dismissal of state law claims based on ERISA preemption in case arising from claims under five individual disability policies).
Corley v. Nat'l Indem. Co., 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 52017 (E.D. Pa., Apr. 18, 2016) and 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 124538 (E.D. Pa. September 9, 2016) (successful representation of a commercial auto insurer in removing a matter to a preferred federal court venue, based on the fraudulent joinder of a co-defendant, despite aggressive opposition from plaintiff’s counsel, and later successful motion to bifurcate plaintiff’s bad faith claim and stay all discovery pending resolution of the UIM contract claim).
Neff v. UnumProvident Corp., 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 110026 (E.D. Pa. Aug. 19, 2015) (obtained dismissal of entire action—including counts for RICO, conversion, intentional interference with contractual relations, fraud, and civil conspiracy—based on the expiration of the statutes of limitations and inapplicability of the discovery rule).
Stanford v. Nat'l Grange Ins. Co., 64 F. Supp. 3d 649 (E.D. Pa. 2014) (obtained summary judgment in favor of motor vehicle insurer on breach of contract and bad faith actions under Pennsylvania and Delaware law based upon insurer’s reasonable handling of UIM claim).
Tubman v. USAA Cas. Ins. Co., 943 F. Supp. 2d 525 (E.D. Pa. 2013)(dismissal obtained of extra-contractual claims against auto insurer alleging breach of fiduciary duty, breach of common law bad faith, and violation of Pennsylvania's Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law).
Foster v. USAA Cas. Ins. Co., 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 181560 (E.D. Pa. Dec. 31, 2013) (summary judgment obtained in favor of auto insurer based upon UIM policy exclusion for injury to covered person occupying motor vehicle owned or regularly used by insured).

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