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Ronald O. Armbrust 
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Shareholder
phone (954) 847-4947
fax (954) 627-6640
email roarmbrust@mdwcg.com

Ron joined Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin as a shareholder in the firm's Fort Lauderdale office in 2007. He has served as lead counsel in numerous lawsuits concerning complex technical, construction defect, product liability, first party, bad faith, commercial, and mass tort litigation. Relative to mass tort litigation, he has represented clients in matters involving factor concentrate/HIV infection, asbestosis, and silicosis.

In addition to a law degree, Ron obtained a bachelors degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering and a masters degree in civil/construction engineering. His engineering background has been especially helpful when defending design and construction defect claims.

Ron has litigated cases involving electrical generating facilities, oil refineries, and paper mills and a wide array of matters including catalytic crackers, gas transmission lines, cast iron drainage pipe, generators, steam turbines, reciprocating and rotary compressors, shut down devices and safety switches, oil storage tanks, steam boilers, water sensing devices, ash handling equipment, aluminum furnaces, gas and coal fired furnaces, refractories, valves, air bags, hydraulic systems, trash handling, and off-road heavy equipment.

Significant Representative Matters

  • Successfully defended a consortium of fire insurance carriers in a four-month trial to verdict in federal court where the insured was a power utility.
  • Successfully represented a big-ten university in a trial to verdict relative to a design and construction defect/structural collapse.
  • Successfully represented a manufacturer of scavenger trucks in a product liability/personal injury action in a federal court trial to verdict.
  • Successfully defended a computer manufacturer in a lengthy AAA arbitration hearing in a commercial litigation case involving a breach of contract.
  • Successfully represented an insurance carrier in a $100 million plus first party/bad faith litigation where the insured was an oil refiner and the subject matter was the efficacy of a newly installed catalytic cracker.
  • Successfully represented an insurance company which issued a difference in conditions policy versus a boiler and machinery carrier where the insured was a national paper manufacturer relative to the defective construction/defective design of one of its paper mills.
  • Successfully represented an insurer for a national oil refinery in a product liability and negligence suit relative to an explosion and destruction of one of its oil refineries.
  • Year Joined Organization:
    2007
    Areas of Practice:
    Tort & Insurance
    Litigation
    Litigation Percentage:
    100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation
    Bar Admissions:
    Illinois, 1975
    Florida, 1995
    Virgin Islands, 1996
    U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida
    U.S. District Court Middle District of Florida
    U.S. District Court Northern District of Florida
    U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois
    U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit
    U.S. Supreme Court
    Education:
    Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, 1975
    J.D.


    University of Illinois, 1973
    M.S.
    Major:  Civil Engineering


    University of Illinois, 1971
    B.S.
    Major:  Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering


    Professional Associations and Memberships:
    Broward County Bar Association


    Illinois State Bar Association


    The Florida Bar


    U.S. Virgin Island Bar Association


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