Ronald E. Huser
Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana 1960
Education
DePauw University, B.A. 1983
Chicago – Kent College of Law, J.D. 1986
Fields of Practice
Mr. Huser has supervised all operations stemming from PWO’s Arizona office since 1988, and is a member of the Management Committee. He regularly consults with insurers in Arizona concerning policy drafting and coverage opinions. He has tried at least 50 civil cases, including personal injury and insurance bad faith, to jury verdict in various jurisdictions. Additionally, he has personally arbitrated more than 1,000 personal injury cases in Maricopa County’s Compulsory Arbitration system. Mr. Huser is also no stranger to the Appellate forum, having handled over one dozen Appeals in the Arizona Supreme and Appellate Courts.
Admissions
Admitted to the Illinois State Bar, 1986
Admitted to the State Bar of Arizona, 1987
Admitted to the U.S. District Court, District of Arizona, 1994
Additional Credentials
Appointed as a Judge Pro Tempore, Maricopa County Superior Court, 2006 – Present
Representative Cases
Gurule v. Macias Mr. Huser defended an insurer who was sued for bad faith and breach of contract as a result of the insurer’s refusal to provide underinsured motorist coverage on a policy. The jury found no breach of contract or bad faith on the part of the insurer, despite unrefuted testimony by a hand-writing expert who opined that the insured’s alleged signature on the application rejecting UIM coverage was an obvious forgery. The jury returned a defense verdict.
Taylor v. Ward Mr. Huser represented Defendant Troy Ward on an appeal from a $16,500 Arbitration Award entered in the Plaintiff’s favor. Mr. Ward had rearended the Plaintiff, while the Plaintiff was executing a right-hand turn. The Plaintiff claimed over $7,400 in medical expenses and $1,400 in lost wages. After the Plaintiff rejected an Offer of Judgment that would have settled the case for $12,000, the jury found the Plaintiff to be 50% at fault in causing the accident, and awarded him less than $3,000.
Safeway v. Guerrero Mr. Huser represented an insurer in a suit against a Plaintiff’s personal injury attorney who had convinced an insured to assign his alleged bad faith claim over to the attorney’s client. The case was eventually appealed to the Arizona Supreme Court, where Mr. Huser successfully argued that the Court should declare for the first time that a valid cause of action may exist in favor of an insurer against an attorney who interferes in the insurance contract between an insurer and insured through the use of improper means and/or motive to obtain an assignment of an insured’s alleged bad faith claim.
Maricopa County, Arizona Mr. Huser successfully obtained a six-figure settlement for an injured teenager against a homeowner for the full policy limit of the homeowner’s insurance. The settlement was paid, despite the fact that the teenager was injured miles from the homeowner’s property and more than an hour after the teenager had left the homeowner’s property.
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