Mr. Booth has mediated and litigated hundreds of Personal Injury matters, including catastrophic injuries, wrongful deaths, and significant injuries from a variety of alleged causes. Mr. Booth has handled and resolved numerous matters involving:

• Premises Liability – Trip & Fall, Slip & Fall, Hazardous Conditions on both public and private land.

• Toxic Torts – both Industrial and Environmental Exposures to carcinogenic or otherwise toxic, hazardous, or noxious materials.

• Catastrophic Injuries, including TBIs, electrocutions, severe burns, traumatic accidents.

• Habitability Claims, including mold claims (both bodily injury and property damage claims); bed bugs, cockroaches, and other insects; vermin; asbestos, lead, noxious gasses, as well statutory violations and damage issues.

• Mobilehome Claims, including the California Mobilehome Residency Law claims

Mr. Booth has had significant experience throughout his career with Property Damage claims, particularly those involving Construction law and Construction Defect litigation. Notably, Mr. Booth has significant experience representing general and subcontractors, as well as handling complex insurance coverage and indemnity related issues in the construction industry.

Mr. Booth has also litigated, mediated, and resolved numerous cases arising from water intrusion and flooding events, including subrogation matters between carriers. He has a particular specialty in storm water run-off issues, both regarding personal and real property disputes as well as business and industry-wide compliance with storm water run-off regulations.

Mr. Booth has also handled numerous fire cases, including multiple spontaneous combustion matters and other cause & origin disputes.

Mr. Booth has also handled both litigation and coverage issues relating to environmental contamination clean-up litigation, and the allocation of responsibility among potentially responsible parties.

Mr. Booth spent much of his 35-year legal career working in and around the insurance industry, both as a litigator and as a coverage attorney. Even as an insurance defense litigator, Mr. Booth focused his case preparations on settlement as much as trial. Mr. Booth focused on giving his clients the best opportunity to resolve their litigation matters early and easily. Mr. Booth has resolved literally hundreds of cases, most as the result of successful mediation or independent negotiation

In particular, Mr. Booth led efforts in multi-defendant litigation to bring defendants, and equally as important, their carriers, into joint settlement discussions. In practice, to prevent wasted mediation time, Mr. Booth routinely arranged for pre-mediation communications among counsel regarding possible potential coverage problems and/or other possible impediments to settlement.

Mr. Booth recognizes the significant, and often governing presence of insurance interests in tort and business litigation, and has spent years learning how to make their participation cooperative and productive rather than confrontational and disruptive.

Mr. Booth’s years of preparing clients and carrier representatives for settlement negotiations have prepared him to address the various interests and complications that arise in any litigation being funded, at least in part, by insurance. Orbiting even a simple 2 party bodily injury case are not only the interests, opinions, and agendas of the parties, but also those of the several attorneys and insurers. As a litigator, Mr. Booth’s specialty, more than anything else, was his ability to communicate productively with opposing counsel, co-defendants, volatile clients, and often multiple insurance representatives. At the busy intersection of litigation and insurance, Mr. Booth is the traffic cop.

Mr. Booth has handled and resolved dozens of claims between landlords and their tenants. He has represented both, and in familiar with both residential and commercial leases, as well as the related indemnity and insurance obligations.

He has handled virtually every conceivable habitability claim, including mold, vermin, bed bugs, cockroaches, other infestations, lead, plumbing and water damage, appliance failures, and more. Mr. Booth is also familiar with medical, emotional, insurance, and regulatory damage issues that necessarily stem from such claims.

Mr. Booth has a particular specialty in handling trespass and nuisance cases as well as other disputes between neighbors. Mr. Booth is intimately familiar with the laws and regulations relevant to most neighbor disputes. He has handled and resolved neighbor disputes between both private and commercial parties, including fire damage claims. He has handled multiple fights between neighbors regarding trespass and trespass to timber; both public and private nuisance; boundary disputes; landslides; and flood/storm water damage.

Mr. Booth has considerable experience in Product Liability litigation. He has served as defense counsel for manufacturers in numerous industries, including paints and thinners, metals, silica and granite, consumer products, foods and food flavorings, and nutritional supplements.

Mr. Booth led several large groups of manufacturers (including a group of 80 defendants sued by a group of 200+ plaintiffs) in the successful defense of claims made by factory and manufacturing workers claiming on-the-job injuries related to products used by their employers. Mr. Booth has significant experience addressing and resolving Failure To Warn claims, as well as manufacturing and design defect product liability disputes.