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Adam J. Brand, the founder of Brand & Associates, has
represented insurance clientele in all phases of first-and third-party
coverage and litigation. He also has represented numerous corporations, both
insured and self-insured, in a variety of litigation, including products
liability, premises liability, general liability, subrogation, and replevin
actions. Mr. Brand has extensive trial experience before state and federal
courts in complex coverage litigation, automobile, commercial, and homeowner
fraud and arson cases, and bad faith and extra-contractual liability
matters. Mr. Brand has more than twenty (20) years of experience
representing insurers, has conducted thousands of depositions and
examinations under oath, and has represented dozens of insurers in
arbitrations, references, mediations, and other non-judicial proceedings. He
also has briefed and argued appeals in the appellate courts of
Massachusetts. Mr. Brand has been called upon to provide testimony before
the Massachusetts Senate on insurance-related matters.
For several years before forming his own firm, Mr. Brand was
a partner at Morrison, Mahoney & Miller, LLP, a national defense firm.
During Mr. Brand's tenure at that firm, he dedicated a substantial portion
of his practice to matters involving subrogation, general liability and the
defense of municipalities. In addition, Mr. Brand managed his previous
firm's Fraud and Arson Litigation Practice Group. This practice group
specialized in representing insurers throughout New England in the
investigation and litigation of suspected fraudulent property and personal
injury claims. Mr. Brand developed a philosophy of aggressively fighting
fraudulent claims, including the filing of complaints for declaratory
relief, counterclaims, and restitution actions.
Mr. Brand is actively involved in the insurance industry’s
education efforts, including efforts to fight fraudulent claims. He has
served as a panelist and lecturer at seminars and conferences sponsored by
international, national and local insurance organizations. Mr. Brand has
provided numerous in-house training sessions to insurance companies.
Mr. Brand also belongs to a number of organizations aimed at
serving the insurance industry, including Defense Research Institute,
International Association of Automobile Theft Investigators, New England
Anti-Fraud Association, New England Association of Insurance Fraud
Investigators, and the Massachusetts Bar Association. In 2007, Mr. Brand was
nominated to join the Council on Ethical Billing (CEB)/Council on Litigation
Management. In 2008, Mr. Brand was selected as National SIU Counsel
for QBE the Americas.
Mr. Brand received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Hobart
College in 1983. He graduated from Suffolk University Law School in 1986,
where he also served as an editor of the Transnational Law Journal. Mr.
Brand studied abroad at the London School of Economics and King's College in
London. Mr. Brand also served as a judicial clerk for the Superior Court of
New Jersey.
Mr. Brand is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts, New
Jersey and New York. He is also admitted to the bars of the United States
District Court for the Districts of Massachusetts and New Jersey, as well as
the First Circuit Court of Appeals.
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