Jeffrey R. Learned
Partner - Michigan Office
E-Mail: jlearned@dt-law.com
Office: (248) 203-2756
Fax: (248) 593-5808
Practice Areas: Jeffrey Learned has practiced law since 1985. Having a strong background in appellate litigation, Mr. Learned heads Denenberg Tuffley's Appellate Practice Group. He has litigated well over 100 appeals in state and federal courts across the country, enjoying great success (including obtaining reversals in over 60% of the cases in which he represented the appealing party - approximately 4 times the average national reversal rate).
In addition, Mr. Learned has extensive experience litigating (and otherwise addressing) property and liability coverage issues. These include pollution exclusions, ordinance or law coverage provisions (or exclusions), trigger of coverage issues, additional collapse coverage, fraud or false swearing, and bad faith.
Finally, Mr. Learned is involved in litigating many large loss subrogation matters. In this regard, he oversees Denenberg Tuffley acting as regional subrogation counsel for one of the largest group of insurance companies in the United States.
Notable Cases: Some of Mr. Learned's more notable appellate court cases are Doshi v Michigan Basic Property Insurance Association, 229 Mich. App. 595, 582 N.W. 2d 542(1998) (Property Coverage); Home Insurance Co. v Detroit Fire Extinguisher Co., Inc., 212 Mich. App. 522,538 N.W. 2d 424 (1995) (Subrogation); Melson v Prime Insurance Syndicate, Inc., 429 F.3d 633 (6th Cir. 2005)(Property Coverage); Mina v General Star Indemnity Co., 218 Mich. App. 678 555 N.W.2d 1 (1996)(property coverage); New Light Company v Wells Fargo Alarm Services, 247 Neb. 57, 525 N.W.2d 25 (1994)(Subrogation); Noran Neurological Clinic, P.A. v The Travelers Indemnity Company, 229 F.3d 707 (8th Cir. 2000)(Property Coverage); Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Co. v Sunrise Club, Inc., 711 So.2d 593 (Fla. Ct. App. 1998)(property coverage); 3910 Super K, Inc. v Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Co., 219 A.D.2d 589, 631 N.Y.S.2d 364 (1995)(Property Coverage).
Mr. Learned has also litigated a wide variety of insurance coverage and subrogation cases before various trial-level courts across the country. These have included a $15 million property insurance coverage dispute arising out of a gas powered turbine loss, various property insurance coverage cases arising out of Hurricanes Hugo, Andrew, Georges and Katrina, liability insurance coverage (duty to defend/allocation of defense costs) questions associated with the Dow Corning breast implant litigation, and subrogation cases arising out of the Americold cave fires in Kansas City, Kansas, the August 2003 power outage in Ohio, and the Rouge Powerhouse Explosion in Dearborn, Michigan.
Admitted: State of Michigan (1985); U.S. Supreme Court (1997); U.S. Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit (2002); U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit (2003); U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit (1990); U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit (1995); U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit (1994); U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit (1993); U.S. District Court, E.D. Mich. (1986); U.S. District Court W.D. Mich. (1999); U.S. District Court, N.D. Ohio (2001).
Education: University of Michigan (B.G.S., 1982); Wayne State University Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1985).
Bar Association Membership: State Bar of Michigan.
Biography: Order of the Coif.