Law Office of BRUCE CORNBLUM

California Insurance Law Attorney and Legal Author
San Diego, California 858-485-8770

About the Author

Bruce Cornblum practices in San Diego and has been a civil trial and appellate attorney since 1965. He has extensive experience litigating lawsuits against insurance companies through verdict by jury and final judgment. He specializes in insurance coverage and personal injury litigation, and is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court.

He is the author of several legal texts. He first wrote CALIFORNIA INSURANCE LAW DICTIONARY AND DESK REFERENCE in 1994. The concept of the dictionary format is used to define and discuss "words" existing in first party property policies and third party liability policies. Each definition is intended to be authoritative. The text has over 1700 sections which include, but is not limited to:

Advertising Injury	Occurrence defined
All Risk Insurance Coverage	Personal Injury / Coverage B
Appeal	Pleading and Practice
Appraisal and Arbitration	Pollution
Bad Faith [First & Third Party]	Potential Liability under Policy
Claims Handling Tactics	Primary Excess Insurance
CGL Policies	Reinsurance
Calif. Insurance Guarantee Assn	Replacement Cost Coverage
Contractor's Liability Policy	Reservation of Rights
Directors and Officers	Self-Insurance
Duty to Defend	Successive Liability Policies
Evidence	Unconscionability
Exclusions	Uninsured/Under-Insured Motorist
Expert Witness	Water Damage
Indemnity	Weather Coverage
Intention of the Parties	Willful Act
	and Thousands More

The text also describes the appraisal process and its significance as the contractual remedy for the insured property and defines various proceedings applicable to the process. This text is updated annually. The 17th Edition will be published by Thomson West mid-2011. Contact West Publishing at 1-800- 328-4880 for customer service.

Mr. Cornblum is a former editor-in-chief for the statewide California Trial Lawyers Journal publication. He has taught law courses at Western States Law School in San Diego.