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Newport Beach Insurance Bad Faith Litigation Lawyer
Overview
Matthew Clark is a partner at Bentley & More whose practice focuses on bad faith litigation as well as personal injury and wrongful death cases. His experience includes representing individuals and businesses in bad faith lawsuits seeking restitution from insurance companies on a variety of matters including denial of coverage and breach of contract.
Mr...
Matthew Clark is a partner at Bentley & More whose practice focuses on bad faith litigation as well as personal injury and wrongful death cases. His experience includes representing individuals and businesses in bad faith lawsuits seeking restitution from insurance companies on a variety of matters including denial of coverage and breach of contract.
Mr...
Matthew Clark is a partner at Bentley & More whose practice focuses on bad faith litigation as well as personal injury and wrongful death cases. His experience includes representing individuals and businesses in bad faith lawsuits seeking restitution from insurance companies on a variety of matters including denial of coverage and breach of contract.
Mr. Clark's experience includes:
- Lead law and motion attorney on a Wyoming insurance coverage dispute in which the Court granted the insureds' partial summary judgment motion-finding coverage under the policy for a more than $26 million dollar judgment in the underlying case against the insureds. The case is Interstate Fire & Casualty Company et al. v. Apartment Management Consultants, LLC, et al., Case No. 2:13-CV-00278-ABJ.
- Lead law and motion attorney representing an insured who had purchased medical coverage for her newborn surrogate twins. After a wrongful denial of coverage, and multiple motions in the district court, the matter resolved for a confidential seven figure settlement.
- Lead law and motion attorney on an insurance dispute arising from a major commercial property fire in downtown Los Angeles. After the insurers' repeated law and motion attempts to delay the case were denied, the matter resulted in a confidential high seven figure settlement with the insurers.
- Representing 28 tenants on a pro bono basis against the landlord and landowners permitting uninhabitable living conditions to persist on a property in Downtown Los Angeles. Resulted in nearly $4 million in settlement/refurbish/repair benefits going to the tenants.
- Law and motion attorney assisting with the case against an insurer who failed to settle claims against its insured. After confidential arbitration, the matter resolved for an eight figure settlement.
- Representing a former oil refinery employee who alleged breach of implied contract for continued employment against his former employer for wrongfully reduced the employee's profit sharing agreement without good cause. Mr. Clark sat second chair at trial where the jury awarded approximately $2 million in past economic damages. (George Sturges, Jr. vs. Kern Fuels Research, LLC, et al.)
- Representing the family in a wrongful death case where a woman was tragically killed during the repossession of her automobile. The case resulted in a confidential seven figure settlement for the husband and daughter.
- Lead associate and law and motion attorney on property insurance case for commercial property in Southern California. After successfully opposing the insurer's three motions for summary judgment and writ petition, the matter settled in favor of the insured for $3.05 million.
- Lead associate and law and motion attorney on multiple six and seven figure settlements in favor of clients injured in auto accidents after the adverse driver's insurance carrier refused to accept a reasonable opportunity to settle within policy limits.
About Matthew Clark
Practice Areas
- Insurance Bad Faith Litigation
- Governmental Tort Liability
- Serious Personal Injury
- Wrongful Death
Current Employment Position(s)
- Partner & Trial Lawyer
Qualifications
Other Affiliations
- American Bar Association
- State Bar of California
- Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles
- Consumer Attorneys of California
- Los Angeles County Bar Association
- Consumer Attorneys of the Inland Empire
- Western San Bernardino County Bar Association
- Orange County Trial Lawyers Association
Education
- Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame, Indiana, 2010
Doctor of Jurisprudence
Honors: magna cum laude
Law Review: Notre Dame Law Review, Article Editor - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2007
B.A., Bachelor of Arts
Honors: Honors College
Honors: NCAA Division 1 Athlete
Achievements
Other Sources of Feedback About Matthew Clark
Included on the 2023 Southern California list
Past Lists
- 2022 Southern California Super Lawyers list
- 2021 Southern California Super Lawyers list
- 2020 Southern California Super Lawyers list
- 2019 Southern California Super Lawyers list
- 2018 Southern California Super Lawyers list
- 2017 Southern California Super Lawyers list
- 2016 Southern California Super Lawyers list
- 2015 Southern California Super Lawyers list
Honors
- Super Lawyers: Rising Star, 2015, 2016
Office Information
Address
4931 Birch St Newport Beach, CA 92660
Phone
Websites
- https://www.bentleymore.com/san-bernardino-personal-injury/ (San Bernardino personal injury lawyers)
Publication
Representative Cases
- Interstate Fire & Casualty Company et al. v. Apartment Management Consultants, LLC, et al., Case No. 2:13-CV-00278-ABJ
- George Sturges, Jr. vs. Kern Fuels Research, LLC, et al.
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