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Frank A. Baker III 
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
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phone (484) 895-2323
fax (484) 895-0208
email fabaker@mdwcg.com

Frank conducts an active insurance defense trial practice, handling a multitude of cases from construction accidents to product liability, premises liability, motor vehicle liability, and medical malpractice, as well as legal malpractice, dental malpractice, and others. He has successfully defended hundreds of general casualty cases with the use of liability, medical, and vocational experts. Frank has also had continued success with the defense of attorneys, accountants, architects, and title insurance agents in professional malpractice actions.

Frank is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where he obtained his Bachelor's Degree, and Villanova Law School, where he received his Juris Doctor. He then served as Law Clerk to a trial judge in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. He is actively involved in civic activities in the Lehigh Valley, where he lives and works.

Significant Representative Matters:

  • Successfully defended owner of a chemical plant which suffered catastrophic explosion, causing multiple deaths and resulting in a number of complex lawsuits.

  • Successfully defended major Japanese manufacturer in defense of multiple suits claiming product defects in subway cars.

  • Successfully defended school bus operating company in death of child who had disembarked from school bus.

  • Successfully defended designer/installer of fire suppression system in alleged premature release of system in gigantic frozen food warehouse.

  • Successfully resolved a complex commercial roof collapse case very economically through use of engineering and meteorological experts.
  • Year Joined Organization:
    1995
    Areas of Practice:
    Premises Liability -- Defense
    Business & Commercial Law
    Products Liability Law
    Automobile Liability
    Trucking & Transportation Liability
    Construction Liability
    Professional Malpractice
    Amusement and Sports Liability
    Retail Liability
    Bar Admissions:
    Pennsylvania, 1977
    Education:
    Villanova University School of Law, Villanova, Pennsylvania, 1977
    J.D.


    University of Pennsylvania, 1972
    B.A.


    Classes/Seminars Taught:
    Various lectures to insurance industry groups on premise liability, auto liability and product liability


    Honors and Awards:
    AV Peer Review Rating by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell


    Professional Associations and Memberships:
    Defense Research Institute


    Lehigh County Bar Association


    Northampton County Bar Association


    Pennsylvania Bar Association


    Pennsylvania Defense Institute


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