Following briefing and oral argument, obtained successful decision for mortgage servicing client on case alleging misrepresentation and breach of contract based on loan modification negotiations with homeowner. Read More
Following briefing and oral argument, obtained favorable appellate decision for defendant bank in a contract action involving alleged breach of oral contract to modify plaintiff's mortgage loan; appellate court endorsed defendant's position that alleged oral promise was unenforceable due to lack of consideration, and that plaintiff failed to state claim for promissory estoppel due to lack of detrimental reliance. Read More
Obtained favorable appellate decision for defendant bank on res judicata grounds; appellate court agreed with defendant’s position that California Civil Code § 473 permitted trial court to grant relief from entry of default on its own motion. Read More
Obtained favorable appellate decision for defendant bank on res judicata grounds; Ninth Circuit also agreed with defendant’s position that it would be futile to grant further leave to amend plaintiff’s complaint. Read More
Represented insurers to numerous law firms and negotiated resolution of some the largest legal malpractice claims in recent years. Read More
Represented insurers in largest insured property and casualty claim in the history of the state of Arizona. Read More
Represented insurers to design professional in large Northern California East Bay gas pipeline explosion. Read More
Represented insurers in several MDL product defect class actions. Read More
Defended railroad in one of the largest natural resource damages claims in the history of the State of California—claim brought by the United States Of America. Read More
Represented numerous insurers in “complex” designated mass tort (multiple death, injury, property damage and subrogation claims) coordinated proceedings arising from underground gas pipeline explosion - San Mateo County. Read More
Represented London and European insurers in multi-million dollar mineral mine failure in Australia. Read More
Defended several Major League Baseball teams and individually named professional baseball players in California-venued casualty litigation. Read More
Represented insurers in what at the time was the second-largest property loss in the history of the state of Alaska. Read More
Represented London and European insurers to a defense judgment in a catastrophic pipeline explosion in the state of Washington. Read More
Represented insurers in what was at the time largest bodily injury claim in the history of the state of Alaska. Read More
Defended two European insurers to a defense judgment in a coverage action of global significance involving the alien tort claim act and war exclusion, involving a Third World energy project. Read More
everson attorney Andrew Noble obtained summary judgment for mortgage originators in a series of federal court cases. Noble prevailed in the U.S. District Court for Eastern California against a mortgage borrower’s allegation that the originator violated TILA, RESPA and state laws by altering loan terms following loan approval but prior to closing. Noble prevailed in the Northern District against a… Read More
A national bank’s lien encumbering unimproved parcels was threatened by a series of pre- and post-loan lot line adjustments in San Mateo County. Severson attorney Andrew Noble developed a novel settlement with the borrower and other lienholders to foreclose, market and sell the property for substantial mutual benefit. Read More
Severson attorney Andrew Noble successfully represented a national bank at a trial in Alameda County Superior Court concerning a dormant certificate of deposit account. The consumer alleged that the bank failed to return funds deposited in the account. A jury found for the bank on all claims. Read More
Sometimes the best results are achieved through settlement rather than from judge or jury. That was the case where Severson negotiated a resolution on behalf of one of the country’s leading tax-credit syndicators. The dispute involved three troubled affordable housing developments in Florida and a fourth in Illinois. Months of negotiations resulted in multi-million dollar relief for one failed project… Read More
