Mr. Cvitanovic is a partner in the Professional Liability Practice Group, the Risk Management & Insurance Law Practice Group and the Product Liability & Tort Litigation Practice Group. Located in the San Francisco office, Mr. Cvitanovic has experience in the areas of professional liability, commercial litigation, construction law, real estate law, insurance insolvency, mass tort litigation, and personal injury litigation. Mr. Cvitanovic has jury trial experience as lead counsel and continues to effectively assist his clients in resolving disputes by way of mediation, arbitration or trial in both state and Federal court. Mr. Cvitanovic has experience with the AAA arbitration rules in general, and the commercial and construction law rules in particular, in large cases involving three arbitrators and other cases with a single arbitrator.
In the area of insurance insolvency, Mr. Cvitanovic represented the trustees of liquidating trust for a former California insurer in over a dozen individual proof of claim proceedings under the California Insurance Code § 1010 et seq. In the course of the liquidation proceedings, Mr. Cvitanovic successfully argued two appeals for the respondent liquidating trust on issues concerning false advertising under Business & Professions Code § 17500 and whether an insurance policy excluding coverage for sexual harassment applied to a sexual assault on a coworker.
