Otis Dunleavy
Partner
Represents subcontractors, suppliers, owners and policyholders in construction and coverage disputes.
Otis worked as a field engineer on commercial jobs before law school, and he still reads a set of drawings faster than a contract. His construction cases are mostly about money that didn't arrive and time that ran over. His coverage cases are for businesses whose insurers said no after a fire, a flood or a lawsuit.
Cases
- Construction disputes
- Mechanic's liens and bond claims
- Insurance coverage disputes
- Bad-faith claims
Otis's admissions, courts and education
Bar admissions
Ohio
2009
Indiana
2012
Courts
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana
Education
J.D., The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
B.S., Civil Engineering, University of Dayton
Languages
English
Memberships
Cincinnati Bar Association
American Bar Association, Forum on Construction Law
How Otis reads a job
He starts with the pay applications and the daily logs, then the drawings, then the contract. The paperwork from the site usually tells him when a job went wrong before anyone wrote a letter about it.
On coverage cases he reads the policy in the order an adjuster would, exclusions last, and writes the insurer a letter before anyone files anything.
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