Angela Taylor
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Angela practices within Butler Snow's Commercial Litigation Group. An AV-rated attorney, Angela works with some of the country’s largest insurance companies in extra-contractual claims, bad faith and fraud litigation, internal corporate investigations, and first party insurance coverage issues.
Biography – View PDF Bio
- About Angela
- Associations
- Bar Admissions
- Distinctions
- Education & Honors
- Experience
- Papers, Presentations, & Publications
- Recent Blogs
Narrative Bio
Angela works with some of the country’s largest insurance companies in extra-contractual claims and internal corporate investigations. She has defended numerous insurers, agents, and employees in extra-contractual litigation, including alleged bad faith and fraud claims.
Angela has defended cases arising from Hurricane Sandy for flood losses brought under flood insurance policies issued by Write Your Own insurers under the Nation Flood Insurance Program.
Angela has also served as discovery co-counsel for a national insurance company involved in mass litigation following several catastrophic weather events.
She is a member of the International Association of Arson Investigators, the Alabama Association of Arson Investigators and is AV®-Preeminent™ Peer Review rated by Martindale-Hubbell®.
Angela has authored an article for the Alabama Lawyer titled, “Municipal Liability Cap on Damages and UIM Insurance,” (July, 2021).
In 2000, Angela obtained her J.D. from Faulkner University and is admitted to the State Bar of Alabama, the U.S. District Courts Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama, the U.S. Court of Appeals Eleventh Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Bar Admissions
- Alabama, 2001
- U.S. District Courts
- Alabama: Southern, Middle, Northern
- U.S. Court of Appeals
- 11th Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
Distinctions
- Martindale-Hubbell®
- AV® – Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated, 2012-2021
Education & Honors
- Thomas Goode Jones School of Law, Faulkner University, J.D., 2000
- Auburn University at Montgomery, B.S., Political Science, 1992
Experience
- Cochran v. Cincinnati Ins. Co., 552 U.S. 815, 128 S. Ct. 90 (2007), WL 4495335 (11th Cir. 2006), Trial Counsel and Appellate Counsel.
- Barkley v. State Farm Fire and Cas. Co., WL 1577796 (S.D. Ala. 2005), Counsel.
- Parr v. Jackson, WL 1381874 (S.D. Ala. 2006), Counsel.
- Earnest v. State Farm Fire and Cas. Co., 475 F.Supp.2d. 1113 (N.D. Ala. 2007), Counsel.
- State Farm Fire and Cas. Co. v. Richardson, WL 4531765 (S.D. Ala. 2008), Trial Counsel.
- State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Causey, 509 F.Supp.2d. 1026 (M.D. Ala. 2001), Counsel.
- State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Nix, 888 So.2d 489 (Ala. 2004), Counsel and Appellate Counsel.
- Ex parte State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 924 So.2d 706 (Ala. 2005), Counsel.
- Gardner v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 842 So.2d 1(Ala.Civ.App.2002), Counsel.
Papers, Presentations, & Publications
- Author, “Municipal Liability Cap on Damages and UIM Insurance,” The Alabama Lawyer, July 2021.