Brent A. Green

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    Brent has spent a significant part of his practice representing national corporations and other defendants in product liability and product warranty cases involving motor vehicles, buildings, and consumer products, handling over 500 cases during his career. He represents the interests of self-insured and insurance companies in motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, products liability, and professional liability including attorney malpractice, real estate broker negligence, and fraud investigation. Brent also continues to represent insurance companies with the investigation and litigation of first party claims.

    With the assistance of liability experts, Brent was recently able to prove that a tragic motor vehicle accident was not caused by the client but rather by the plaintiff and obtained a defense verdict at trial. In another case, through the use of medical expert testimony, Brent successfully attacked causation for injuries due to pre-existing factors and embellishment by the plaintiff as to limitations in daily activities. Subsequently, a defense verdict was returned by that jury.

    Brent graduated from Mansfield University. There he served in a number of elected offices including president of the student government. Following graduation, he attended Pettit College of Law at Ohio Northern University where he received two awards for academic achievement and was invited to serve on the University Law Review. After receiving his juris doctor, Brent served as law clerk to President Judge Robert Kemp for one year. For six years following his judicial clerkship, Brent practiced in a small, general practice firm with an emphasis in insurance defense litigation.

    Significant Representative Matters

    Obtained favorable jury verdict in severe brain injury case with multi-million dollar demand by proving plaintiff's damages were not due to client's negligence.

    Litigated and obtained favorable decision where Court denied an appeal from a privately agreed upon arbitration of an uninsured motorist claim holding that the award is subject to the standards of a common law arbitration and an arbitrator’s decision could only be set aside if there was “clear, precise, and convincing evidence" that the parties were denied a hearing or that there was fraud, misconduct, corruption, or some other irregularity which caused the rendering of an unjust, inequitable award.

    Obtained dismissal of product liability case brought by workers compensation carrier seeking reimbursment of significant benefits paid to injured employee after proving employee did not did not file the lawsuit and under Pennsylvania law the carrier is prohibited from independantly pursuing the lien.   

    Published Works

    “Pennsylvania Superior Court Refuses to Enforce Online Binding Arbitration Agreement Located in Hyperlink,” Defense Digest, Vol. 29, No. 3, September 2023

    "Are the Federal Courts Starting a Trend to Preclude Experts on Bad Faith Issues?" Defense Digest, Vol. 19, No. 3, September 2013

    "Plaintiff's Failure to Name an Indispensable Party Results in Dismissal of Entire Case," Defense Digest, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2000

    "Failure to Name Indispensable Party Results in Case Dismissal," Lawyers Journal, October 6, 2000

    Admissions
    Pennsylvania
    1988
    U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania
    1989
    Education
    Claude W. Pettit College of Law (J.D., 1988)
    Mansfield University of Pennsylvania (B.S., 1985)
    Associations & memberships
    American Bar Association
    Lehigh County Bar Association
    Pennsylvania Bar Association
    Pennsylvania Defense Institute
    Year joined
    1995