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BIOGRAPHY
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DOUGLAS M. McINTOSH founded the firm in 1989. He has handled a
broad range of personal injury, product liability, commercial and professional
negligence litigation, including legal, dental and medical malpractice defense,
product liability and insurance coverage litigation. He has had the opportunity
to counsel insurance companies on bad faith, professional errors and omissions,
general liability and all-risk policies of insurance and focuses his practice
predominantly on catastrophic damages and insurance coverage matters. He developed the
Healthcare Law Practice Section, and the Insurance Coverage Division, in the
firm. He has served as a testifying expert in State and Federal Courts, in bad
faith, primary, excess and reinsurance law cases. He has served on the Board of
Directors, and is a Past President of the Florida Defense Lawyers Association (FDLA),
a one-thousand member organization of the civil defense bar of this State. He
has been awarded this organization's highest achievement award, for his efforts
for the defense bar statewide, and nationally.
He is an elected member of the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC)
and serves on its Professional Liability, Medical Malpractice and Admiralty Law
Committees. He is an elected member of the Association of Defense Trial
Attorneys (ADTA). Mr. McIntosh is also an active member of DRI, The Voice of the
Defence Bar and served for five years as the appointed Florida statewide
representative to this national organization. He was elected as a National
Director on its Board of Directors and served a three year term. Mr. McIntosh
has served on numerous DRI committees, and in 2008-2009 chairs its Insurance
Roundtable. He has served as chairperson of the Broward County Bar Association,
Professionalism Committee, for many years, and has chaired its Peer Review
Council. He was awarded the BCBA Lynn Futch Professionalism in Practice Award in
2004. He has lectured to state leaders around the country, on substantive and
defense trial practice issues. Mr. McIntosh is a member of the Board of
Governors of the Shepard Broad Law Center of Nova Southeastern University. He is
an elected member of the Fort Lauderdale Chapter of the American Board of Trial
Advocates (ABOTA).
He is admitted to practice in the State and Federal Courts in Florida and is
admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. McIntosh
helped found Hope Outreach Center, Inc., a community outreach program in Broward
County, Florida, and served as its President for many years. He has also served
as a member to Florida Supreme Court-appointed committees, and received an award
from the Florida Supreme Court, as a guardian ad litem for children in Broward
County. Mr. McIntosh enjoys an "AV" rating from his peers, the highest level
rating awarded to lawyers by Martindale-Hubbell. He has also been voted by his
peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America, the oldest and one of the most
respected publications in the legal profession. He has authored numerous
articles, published chapters on Defense Techniques for major publishers, and has
lectured frequently on a variety of topics, including trial techniques, bad
faith and insurance coverage in Florida and law firm economics and business
practices. Mr. McIntosh is a state qualified Arbitrator, and has served as
selected mediator, panel
and sole Arbitrator, in a number of matters.
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EDUCATION:
•Boston College (A.B.,
1977)
•Nova University (J.D.,
1981)
ADMITTED TO
PRACTICE:
•Florida Bar, 1981.
•U.S. District Court,
Southern District of Florida,1981
•Middle District of
Florida, 1992
•U.S. Court of Appeal,
Fifth and Eleventh
Circuits, 1981
•U.S. Supreme Court,
1986.
•Certified Guardian Ad
Litem, Florida Supreme Court
PRACTICE AREAS
Admiralty Law
Maritime Law
Insurance Coverage
Bad Faith
Medical Malpractice Law
Professional
Malpractice Law
Product Liability
Health Law
PUBLISHED CASES
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