Evan J. Palik

• Background
  • Evan is a litigator with over 20 years of civil trial experience in insurance defense litigation
  • He has extensive experience with asbestos/toxic tort and products liability cases
• Areas of Experience and Focus
  • Insurance Law
  • Personal injury defense litigation
  • Commercial litigation
  • Successfully defended clients in federal and state court in products liability, premises liability, employer intentional tort, and automobile and truck accident cases
  • Significant toxic tort defense experience, particularly in the area of asbestos
• Achievements/Honors
  • Obtained favorable verdict in major products liability/construction defect trial
  • Obtained favorable verdict for county defendant in a major highway defect auto accident trial
  • Reported Decisions include Bartel v. John Crane Inc., 316 F.Supp.2d 603 (N.D. Ohio, 2004), aff’d, Lindstrom v. A-C Product Liability Trust, 424 F.3d 488 (6th Cir. 2005); Torba v. J.M. Smucker Co., 888 F.Supp. 851 (1995); Barbeck v. Twinsburg Twp., 69 Ohio App.3d 837 (1990); Sentinel Sec. Systems v. Medkeff, 36 Ohio App.3d 86 (1987)
• Professional Involvement
  • Ohio State Bar Association
  • Akron Bar Association
  • Akron Bar Association Foundation (Fellow)
• Publications and Presentations
  • Speaker at November 2005 Ohio Metropolitan Bar Association Consortium Continuing Legal Education Seminar on Ohio employer intentional tort law
  • Presented annual seminars for major insurance company staff on current developments in Ohio law
• Education
  • Miami University, BS Business (Finance/Economics), 1982
  • University of Akron School of Law, JD, 1985
• Bar Admissions/Licenses
  • State of Ohio
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit