Michael R. Davisson

Member

Mike is a trial lawyer with over 45 plus years of experience in insurance and commercial litigation – the last 30 plus years as first-chair – and has direct experience in antitrust, bankruptcy, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, director and officer liability, fraud, interference with contract, insurance coverage and bad faith, insurance regulatory, and partnership disputes. A trusted adviser, Mike provides strategic recommendations for businesses and insurers involving multi-party commercial disputes. He has served as lead counsel in complex litigation, and has mediated, arbitrated, litigated and tried hundreds of cases throughout the United States. Mike has helped clients avoid hundreds of millions of dollars in potential recoveries, and handled over 20 appeals. He has achieved significant results in law and motion and appellate practice, resulting in numerous published decisions in both state and federal courts.

Prior to joining the firm, Mike was a partner in an international law firm where he also served for six years as the managing partner of the Los Angeles office. He is an active member of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society and the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association. Mike is a frequent writer and speaker on insurance, insurance bad faith, and insurance litigation issues. He has been an editor and contributor to the Directors & Officers Insurance Deskbook (2nd, 3rd, and 4th editions, ABA), the Annotated Financial Institution Bond (2nd Edition, ABA), Commercial Insurance Coverage (2014, ABA), the Financial Institution Bond and Commercial Crime Policy: Principles and Annotations (2024, ABA), and Appleman on Insurance.

Mike received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and earned his law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.

Experience

News

Cozen O’Connor Grows Global Insurance Department in Los Angeles and Houston with Addition of Six Litigators

April 04, 2017

The six lawyers joining Cozen O’Connor’s Global Insurance Department include Stephen P. Pate, who comes to the firm as a member in the Houston office, Lauren E. Figaro who joins as an associate in the Houston office; Michael R. Davisson and Valerie D. Rojas, who both join as members in the Los Angeles office; Patricia M. Parisi, who joins as of counsel in the Los Angeles office; and Andrea J. Giovannone, who joins as an associate in the Los Angeles office. Davisson, Rojas, Parisi, and Giovannone all join from Sedgwick.

Events & Seminars

Past Events

Fidelity Law Association Annual Conference

November 08, 2017 - Boston, Massachusetts

2017 Professional Liability Seminar

October 12, 2017 - New York, NY

Industry Sectors

Education

  • University of California, Hastings College of the Law, J.D., 1978
  • University of California–Berkeley, A.B., 1975
  • California
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court -- Arizona
  • U.S. District Court -- Colorado
  • U.S. District Court -- Hawaii
  • U.S. District Court -- Idaho
  • U.S. District Court -- Central District of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court -- Northern District of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court -- Southern District of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court-Western District of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court -- Oregon
  • U.S. District Court -- Southern District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court -- Delaware
  • U.S. District Court -- New Jersey
  • U.S. District Court -- Eastern District of New York