- Telephone: 216-696-4200
- E-Mail: tconnick@sssb-law.com
- Website: www.sssb-law.com
Practice Areas
- Commercial Litigation
- Complex Litigation
- Construction Law
- Contracts
- Corporate Law
- Environmental Law
- Examinations Under Oath
- Federal Employer Liability Claims (FELA)
- Fire
- First and Third Party Defense
- Personal Injury
- Property Loss
- Real Estate
- Trade Secrets
About Us
Tom Connick of Schneider Smeltz Spieth Bell LLP has decades of insurance defense experience in litigating, negotiating, and when necessary, taking to trial insurance related disputes ranging from the simple slip and fall case to complex multi-million dollar exposure environmental, fire, large loss property damage, personal injury, bad faith, and construction industry related cases, involving both commercial and personal lines insurance contracts. These cases have often involved significant monetary exposures to both the insured-client, as well as the insurance company.
Mr. Connick’s experience in this area also spans a broad spectrum of First-Party, Third-Party and inter-company insurance coverage disputes. He often works in partnership with the Firm’s insurance carrier clients to prepare comprehensive coverage opinion letters, reservation of rights letters and/or coverage denial letters. He also actively engages in Examinations Under Oath to assist its insurance carrier clients in all aspects of insurance coverage disputes.
Whether representing an insurance company or its' insured, Tom Connick is proud to obtain excellent results for his clients by offering high quality legal representation, at an exceptional value to the client.
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Thomas J. Connick
Cleveland, OH
Admitted
- Ohio, 1999
- U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth and Sixth Circuits
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Supreme Court of Ohio
Additional Biographical Details:
Best Lawyers in America, Construction Law and Construction Litigation (2020-Present); Admitted to Practice Pro Hac Vice for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana, South Bend Division; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan (2010); U.S. Court of Appeals, 1st District of Massachusetts (2011); U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida (2018); U.S. District Court, Middle District of Georgia (2018); U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Delaware (2019); U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia, Charlottesville Division, (2019)
Memberships:
- Ohio State and Cleveland Bar Associations
- National Association of Consumer Advocates
- Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys
Education:
- John Carroll University, B.A., 1992
- The University of Akron, M.P.A., 1994
- Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, J.D., 1999
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