Robert W. K. Farrell is a senior litigation counsel with the firm who specializes in insurance coverage, bad faith litigation and environmental claims. He has over 22 years of experience involving environmental insurance claims and environmental coverage matters, including Proposition 65 and RCRA litigation.

He also has considerable experience in litigating insurance coverage issues in first party property insurance claims and he has extensive experience in the handling of bad faith insurance lawsuits. He also has litigated and managed complex construction coverage and construction defect litigation.

Mr. Farrell graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Riverside in 1977 and received his J.D. in 1981 from King Hall School of Law, University of California, Davis. In addition to his former association with the environmental coverage practice group at Rivkin, Radler & Kremer, Mr. Farrell was also former Enforcement Counsel for the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),responsible for prosecuting violations of Federal natural resources and environmental statutes.

• Novak v. Low, Ball & Lynch (1999) 77 Cal.App.4th 278.