John Hayward Walsh

Law School
Loyola Law School

Major Cases
John Walsh has been counsel for hundreds of defendants throughout his career primarily handling six, seven- and eight-figure cases ranging from wrongful death, catastrophic injury and construction defect suits to insurance coverage and bad faith litigation. Appellate decisions include Stonewall Ins. Co.v. City of Palos Verdes Estates and Pruyn v. Agricultural Ins. Co., seminal California insurance law opinions.

Professional Background
Walsh, a founding member of his firm, is AV-rated by his peers and an A. M. Best’s recommended attorney with extensive experience over his career in the litigation and trial of insurance coverage, construction defect, professional liability, medical malpractice, employer’s liability, personal injury and product liability cases. Since graduating from Loyola Law School in 1983, Walsh has been in high demand, including selection as regional counsel for environmental coverage litigation, national counsel in latex glove and fen-phen coverage litigation and lead counsel for developers in catastrophic landslide litigation.

Professional Affiliations
Walsh is admitted in all California courts, all U. S. District Courts in California, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. He is a member of the Defense Research Institute, San Diego Defense Lawyers, Association of Southern California Defense Counsel and the San Diego County Bar Association.