Attorney Profiles

Leo A. Bohanski joined Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin as an associate in 2004 handling the defense of casualty matters consisting of motor vehicle liability, premises liability, general liability and first party benefits disputes.  He is a member of the Casualty Practice Group. 

In 2000, he graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in International Politics.  He studied in France at the Marc Bloch University of Strasbourg consisting of a full course load of classes taught only in French.  Upon returning from France, he studied at Villanova University School of Law obtaining his J.D. in 2003.  Soon after graduating law school, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Peter J. O'Brien in the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County for a one-year term. 

Leo, a native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has spent most of his life in the United States, while maintaining close ties to family and friends in Brazil.

Signficant Representative Matters:

• Successfully obtained summary judgment in a 12 vehicle pile-up accident in dense fog on a major interstate highway involving a fatality and numerous claims for personal injuries and subrogation of property damages. 
  
  
• Successfully obtained summary judgment dismissing the bad faith count against a carrier and dismissing all claims for structural property damage, personal property damage, mold remediation and alternative living expenses on a large flood loss to the plaintiffs' residence.  The only remaining claim involved a small roof damage claim.