Robert A. Anderson

Mr. Anderson has extensive experience in providing coverage analyses, representing and advising insurance companies regarding declaratory judgment actions and bad faith claims. Mr. Anderson has tried over 60 cases, with many complex matters extending two to four weeks or more in length. Some recent examples include:

• Multiple successful outcomes in personal and commercial suits with injuries ranging from traumatic brain injury to damages arising out of a National Hot Rod Association sanctioned drag racing competition (four-week trial in which verdict was less than fifty percent of “rock bottom” last demand by plaintiffs).
  
  
• Numerous homeowners and business-related claims spanning the gamut of ski-injury and farm-related matters to more traditional slip/trip and falls. Defense verdict on proximate causation after admitting liability and plaintiff undergoing five shoulder surgeries.
  
  
• Four-week trial resulting in a defense verdict in which clients’ horses separated from a stagecoach and stampeded through a crowd, injuring eighteen people and resulting in a payment to the injured parties in excess of $3,000,000.00 by co-defendants. Participated in hundreds of mediations successfully extricating insureds and clients from costly and time-consuming litigation.
  
  

In the area of complex commercial litigation, Mr. Anderson has considerable experience representing individuals and business entities in a wide variety of legal matters. Including disputes relating to contract breaches, antitrust matters, non-compete covenants, and class action claims. Mr. Anderson’s past experience includes:

• Two-month trial resulting in verdict of $1.00 in lost profits being awarded after plaintiffs’ experts testified such losses were in the range of $15-100 million.
  
  
• Successful resolution of class action matter involving over 100 homes in two subdivisions in which plaintiffs’ initial demand was in excess of $10 million.
  
  
• Successfully handled business litigation matters which involved multi-million dollar claims and in excess of 500,000-1,000,000 documents and required extensive development of a paralegal and associate team to scan, review, and incorporate those documents into AJH’s computer software programs designed to facilitate topical, witness, and OCR searches of multiple databases.
  
  

Mr. Anderson’s knowledge and experience in representing contractors, subcontractors, owners, developers, and design professionals provide our clients with the unique depth of experience necessary to analyze, defend, and efficiently resolve the entire range of construction disputes. Mr. Anderson’s experience in this area includes:

• Successfully defending his first design professional malpractice trial in 1982, with a jury verdict in excess of $1 million dollars against the co-defendant subcontractor.
  
  
• Has tried several other A & E cases since that time, all with a defense verdict outcome, with the most recent being a five week trial in Spokane, Washington, resulting in a defense verdict against the heirs and estate of an individual who fell into an industrial fan, for which plaintiffs’ counsel never reduced the settlement demand below $7,000,000.
  
  
• Reached a successful resolution of a case involving complex design issues on a multi-million dollar bridge on the Interstate running through Boise, Idaho.Obtained two summary judgments on behalf of an engineering company, both of which rulings were upheld by the Idaho Court of Appeals and Idaho Supreme Court.
  
  
• Recently completed a four-week trial in which a homeowner, who had spent more than $2.3 million dollars “repairing” a home, was limited to less than 50% of that total in terms of a verdict, with 2/3 of the liability attributed to a sub-contractor.

Along with extensive litigation experience, Mr. Anderson is a frequently sought after lecturer in the areas of construction law and insurance matters.

He has been requested to speak to, among others:

• Boise Association of Idaho Insurance Adjusters
  
  
• American Society of Professional Engineers
  
  
• American Institute of Architects (state convention and various chapters throughout the state)
  
  
• Consulting Engineers of Idaho
  
  
• Association of General Contractors
  
  

Mr. Anderson has also served as a lecturer for Lorman, NBI, the Idaho Law Foundation, and the National Business Institute Seminar on topics ranging from depositions, insurance coverage law, bad faith law, and numerous construction-related matters. In addition, he has served as a Mentor for various Litigation Skills Training Programs conducted by the Idaho State Bar, Litigation Section, and the U.S. Federal District Court.

In addition, he has served as a mentor for various litigation skills training programs conducted by the Idaho State Bar, Litigation Section, and the U.S. Federal District Court.

Mr. Anderson is a member of the Idaho and Oregon State Bars, and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the District of Idaho; the United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; and all courts of the States of Idaho and Oregon.

He is a current member of the American Bar Association (Tort and Insurance Practice Section), the Idaho Association of Defense Counsel; the Defense Research Institute (Insurance, Ethics and Construction Law Committees), and the Ada County Magistrates Selection Committee (1991).

Mr. Anderson is the former Chairman of both the Idaho State Bar/Law Foundation Ethics Committee (1990) and I.O.L.T.A. Committee (1993-1997), as well as the former President of the Fourth District Bar (1991).

He currently serves on the Idaho State Bar Continuing Legal Education Committee and Civil Rules Committee. In addition, Mr. Anderson served on the original Board of Directors of Idaho Attorneys Against Hunger and Idaho Partners for Justice.