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Phillip J. Frazee

Admissions:

State of Colorado
State of Minnesota
State of California
U.S. District Court, Colorado
U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan
U.S. District Court, Central District of California

U.S. District Court,
Eastern District of Wisconsin
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois

Education:

Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, Bachelor of Science.

George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, Virginia, Juris Doctor.

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Phillip J. Frazee

 

Mr. Frazee is Of Counsel to the Yates Law Firm and recently returned from sailing the South Pacific to join the firm and run the firm's California office in Orange County, California.   Prior to his sabbatical, Mr. Frazee worked with Mr. Yates for five years and handled numerous cases from inception through jury trial and appeal in state and federal courts throughout the United States.   Mr. Frazee has tried numerous cases as first or   second chair in state and federal courts in both bench and jury trials in areas of products liability, personal injury, construction defect, and insurance coverage and bad faith claims of large property, construction, and   business interruption losses.

In January 2000, Mr. Frazee second-chaired a successful jury trial defense of Protection Mutual Insurance Company with Mr. Yates in Illinois state court against a $5 million insurance bad faith claim and business interruption loss.   Mr. Frazee also wrote the appellate briefs on appeal to the Illinois Court of Appeals which affirmed the trial court verdict.   In 2001, Mr. Frazee again second-chaired a jury trial with Mr. Yates against Hartford Insurance Company which resulted in a verdict in excess of $1.8 million for the insured.   Mr. Frazee also wrote the appellate briefs on appeal to the Colorado Court of Appeals which affirmed the jury verdict.  

Reported Cases

Lyon Metal Products, LLC v. Protection Mut. Ins. Co., 254 Ill.Dec. 455, 747 N.E.2d 495 (Ill.App.Ct. 2001)

Agritrack, Inc. v. DeJohn Housemoving, Inc., 25 P.3d 1187 (Colo. 2001)

 


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