Marc R. Levy
	Plaza Tower One 6400 S. Fiddlers Green Circle, Suite 900 Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111 Telephone: 303-796-2900

Mr. Levy is an active trial attorney with primary emphasis in the litigation of insurance bad faith, construction defect, third-party liability defense, insurance coverage, employment and civil rights discrimination and environmental claims. He also has litigated the defense of arson, fraud, no-fault coverage and other first-party insurance claims. In the recent past, he was lead counsel in litigation resulting in fraud verdicts against a chiropractic firm and a law firm. Mr. Levy has headed the defense of a national insurance carrier in litigation involving the dispute over the liability for environmental clean-up of the Lowry Landfill, and has served as local counsel for a major corporation in the defense of asbestos related bodily injury claims. He has also served as a lecturer at numerous professional and industry seminars, speaking on litigation, medical and insurance issues.

Mr. Levy has and continues to be an active trial lawyer having tried cases in literally every jurisdiction along the Front Range, and Wyoming and Oklahoma. Currently, he specializes in the defense of claims and actions for insurance bad faith. He has testified before the Colorado Legislature and Division of Insurance with respect to insurance related matters, and has served as a consultant and lecturer for the Colorado Division of Insurance, including an invitation to speak at the International Association of Insurance Commissioners meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. He has also litigated matters within the administrative framework of the Colorado Division of Insurance and spent approximately one year in consultation with a major insurer with respect to a market conduct examination conducted by the Division. Mr. Levy has personally litigated approximately three dozen jury trials in which claims of bad faith were made, and has had involvement in approximately two dozen Colorado appellate cases involving insurance law issues. He has also lectured extensively in the field, including numerous presentations of a seminar directed to claims (non-legal) professionals and acts as counsel for two major insurers through their respective national bad faith litigation defense units.

Mr. Levy was admitted to the bar in 1981, and is licensed to practice in Oklahoma and Colorado. Mr. Levy obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1978 and his Juris Doctor degree in 1980 from the University of Oklahoma. Mr. Levy was a member of the Order of the Coif and an instructor in Legal Research and Writing in 1980 while attending the University of Oklahoma. Mr. Levy began his law career as a law clerk for Justice Robert D. Simms of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. Mr. Levy is currently a member of the Denver, Oklahoma, Colorado and American Bar Associations, Colorado Defense Lawyers Association, and the Defense Research Institute.

 

Reported and Appellate Cases
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company v. Fisher, — F.3d —-, 2010 WL 3312841 (10th Cir.).

Currier v. Sutherland, 218 P.3d 709 (Colo. 2009)

Eppich v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., Slip Copy, 2009 WL 3162245 (D.Colo. 2009)

State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Fisher, Slip Copy, WL 2766763 (D.Colo. 2009)

State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Fisher, Slip Copy, 2009 WL 1586921(D.Colo. 2009)

Fire Ins. Exchange v. Sullivan, 224 P.3d 348 (Colo.App. 2009).

State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Fisher, Slip Copy, 2009 WL 1440232 (D.Colo. 2009)

State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Fisher, Slip Copy, 2009 WL 1011194 (D.Colo. 2009)

Trinity Universal Ins. Co. of Kansas, Inc. v. D.R. Horton, Inc., Slip Copy, 2009 WL 1010548 (D.Colo. 2009)

State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Fisher, Slip Copy, 2009 WL 798647 (D.Colo. 2009)

State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Fisher, Slip Copy, 2009 WL 798661 (D.Colo. 2009)

Trinity Universal Ins. Co. of Kansas, Inc. v. D.R. Horton, Inc., Slip Copy, 2009 WL 721814 (D.Colo. 2009)

Carl’s Italian Restaurant v. Truck Ins. Exchange, 183 P.3d 636 (Colo. App. 2007).

Pappas v. Frank Azar & Associates, P.C., Slip Copy, 2007 WL 2683549 (D.Colo. 2007)

Munger v. Farmers Ins. Exchange, 174 P.3d 832 (Colo.App. 2007)

Lefeber v. Farmers Insurance Exchange, 2007WL2390900 (Colo.App. 2007)

Massingill v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co, 176 P.3d 816 (Colo.App. 2007)

Zimmer v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. Co., 2007WL178289 (Colo.App. 2007)

Pappas v. Frank Azar & Associates, P.C., Slip Copy, 2007 WL 1549037 (D.Colo. 2007)

Jessee v. Farmers Ins. Exchange, 147 P.3d 56 (Colo. 2006)

Bush v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 101 P.3d 1145 (Colo.App. 2004)

Lazar v. Riggs, 79 P.3d 105 (Colo. 2003)

City of Westminster v. Centric-Jones Constructors, 100 P.3d 472 (Colo.App. 2003)

D.C. Concrete Management, Inc. v. Mid-Century Ins. Co., 39 P.3d 1205 (Colo.App. 2001)

Tait ex rel. Tait v. Hartford Underwriters Ins. Co., 49 P.3d 337 (Colo.App. 2001)

Farmers Ins. Exchange v. Taylor, 45 P.3d 759 (Colo.App. 2001)

Ahmadi v. Allstate Ins. Co., 22 P.3d 576 (Colo.App. 2001)

Mid-Century Ins. Co. v. Heritage Drug, Ltd., 3 P.3d 461 (Colo.App. 1999)

Farmers Ins. Exchange v. Bill Boom Inc., 961 P.2d 465 (Colo. 1998)

State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Stein, 940 P.2d 384 (Colo. 1997)

Farmers Ins. Exchange v. Dotson, 913 P.2d 27 (Colo. 1996)

State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Stein, 924 P.2d 1154 (Colo.App. 1996)

Farmers Ins. Exchange v. American Mfrs. Mut. Ins. Co., 897 P.2d 880 (Colo.App. 1995)

State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Parrish, 899 P.2d 285 (Colo.App. 1994)

State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Stein, 886 P.2d 326 (Colo.App. 1994)

Levy-Wegrzyn v. Ediger, 899 P.2d 230 (Colo.App. 1994)

Coffman v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 884 P.2d 275 (Colo. 1994)

Galusha v. Farmers Ins. Exchange, 844 F.Supp. 1401 (D.Colo. 1994)

Adolph Coors Co. v. American Ins. Co., 1993 WL 13029757 (D.Colo. 1993)

Compton v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 870 P.2d 545 (Colo.App. 1993)

Acierno v. Trailside Townhome Ass’n, Inc., 862 P.2d 975 (Colo.App. 1993)

State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Nissen, 851 P.2d 165 (Colo. 1993)

Coffman v. Coffman v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. Co, 865 P.2d 856 (Colo.App. 1993)

Adolph Coors Co. v. American Ins. Co., 164 F.R.D. 507 (D.Colo. 1993)

State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Broadnax, 827 P.2d 531 (Colo. 1992)

State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Nissen, 835 P.2d 537 (Colo.App. 1992)

State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Cabs, Inc., 751 P.2d 61 (Colo. 1988)

Torrez v. Day, 725 P.2d 1184 (Colo.App. 1986)