William J. Brady
Jul 1st, 2008 by julie
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Contact InformationWilliam J. Brady, Esq. Grimshaw & Harring, P.C. 1700 Lincoln Street, Suite 3800 Denver, CO 80203-4538 303.839.3800 | 303.839.3773 wmjbrady@grimshawharring.com |
William J. Brady is a trial lawyer with more than thirty years experience in litigating civil matters. Insurance coverage, personal injury, environmental and hazardous waste disposal cases have been successfully resolved on behalf of domestic and international corporations, cities, mining companies, aircraft manufacturers, churches and religious orders, and other business and individual clients. Representing both plaintiffs and defendants, Mr. Brady’s practice focuses upon releases of petroleum and petroleum based products, toxic chemicals, chlorinated solvents, heavy metals, radioactive substances and other contaminants in the environmental and hazardous waste arenas. He has appeared in courts throughout the United States and in the Royal Courts of Justice in England, litigating against London Market insurance companies, Lloyd’s of London syndicates, and French, German and other foreign excess and reinsurers underwriting coverage in the London Market. In addition to his environmental, insurance and municipal clientele, Mr. Brady occasionally represents victims of cancer misdiagnosis, personal injury, and toxic torts in serious injury/wrongful death cases.
Intersol 2008
In March 2008 Mr. Brady delivered a white paper and power point presentation on aspects of the European Union Environmental Directive and “Assurances Environnementaux” at Intersol 2008 in Paris, France. Le Comité Scientifique d’Intersol selected him to address the conference attendees, all of whom were from EU Member States. Held annually in Paris, Intersol is a prestigious international congress focusing on environmental issues such as the remediation of contaminated soils and groundwater, the transfer of associated risk and the conveyance of “brownfields” sites within the EU. For additional information or to view the presentation, visit Mr. Brady’s University of Denver, Sturm College of Law weblink here.
Experience
Mr. Brady has secured several multi-million dollar insurance settlements for international mining companies and municipalities nationwide. Among his international clientele are mining, construction and engineering firms such as Cyprus Amax Minerals, Phelps Dodge, Thompson Creek Metals, Washington Group International, Australian high tech companies (MasterSoft International) and German chemical manufacturers (Degussa Corporation). He has also testified in Congress on Superfund issues, and has participated in conferences sponsored by the White House, the EPA and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. He has been a frequent guest on “Law Cast,” a nationally broadcast radio program dealing with insurance, tort and trial issues, and has served as a commentator for KUSA-TV “9 News” in Denver. Additionally, Mr. Brady currently serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Denver College of Law, as well as teaching in DU’s University College, Graduate Environmental Policy and Management Program.
Mr. Brady and firm attorneys have also been active at several “extreme exposure” Superfund sites, including the Rocky Flats Former Nuclear Weapons Manufacturing Complex (Golden/Boulder), the Lowry Landfill (Denver), the Heartland of America (Omaha), the Stead Solvent Site (Reno), F.E. Warren Air Force Base (Wyoming), the Woodbury Pharmaceutical Plant (Denver) and mining sites throughout the western US and New Zealand. He continues to write and lecture on environmental and insurance topics for the National Business Institute, the International Municipal Law Officers Association, the Colorado Bar Association, the Colorado Municipal League (CML), the Colorado City Attorney’s Association and the Colorado Trial Lawyer’s Association (CTLA). He is also the author of multiple amicus briefs for CML, CTLA, the American Mining Congress and the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association and various policyholder trade organizations.
Publications
Mr. Brady is also widely published, having authored over twenty-five professional journal articles, including authoring the chapter on Environmental Insurance for the treatise, “Environmental Regulation of Colorado Real Property,” Stephen A. Bain, Editor, Bradford Publishing Company, June 2007, and the Professor’s Manual for the text,”The Regulation Of Toxic Substances And Hazardous Wastes” by Applegate, Laitos and Celia Campbell-Mohn, University Casebook Series, Foundation Press, September, 2002 (author of chapters on Superfund and toxic torts). He has also written and directed a film on due process of law, “The Cornerstone,” narrated by the late Raymond Burr, wherein Mr. Brady interviewed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy.
Practice Areas
Education
- St. Johns University, New York (B.A., 1968)
- University of Denver (M.A., 1974; J.D., 1977)
List of Publications
- Environmental Regulation of Colorado Real Property. Stephen A. Bain, Editor, Bradford Publications, 2007 (Mr. Brady is the author of chapter on Environmental Insurance) The chapter emphasizes key Colorado, precedent-setting decisions widely followed nationally. Additionally, the chapter discusses newer, specialized, environmental liability insurance products available for existing and prospective purchasers of contaminated properties, such as pollution legal liability insurance, remediation stop/loss or cost cap coverage, and secured creditor impaired property policies. February, 2007
- The Regulation of Toxic Substances and Hazardous Wastes, Chapters on Superfund and Toxic TortsProfessor’s Manual, University Casebook Series published by Foundation Press, 2002
- City of Littleton, Wallis and Insurance for Multi-Year Liability Claims, William J. Brady and Lisa K. Mayers. The authors are coverage counsel who represented the City of Littleton in City of Littleton v. Compass Insurance, both in the trial court and before the Colorado Supreme Court.29 Colo. Law. 5 (Feb. 2000)
- Compass Insurance Co. v. City of Littleton–Colorado Supreme Court Adopts Second Discharge Analysis in Finding Insurance for City Environmental Liabilities, William J. Brady and Lisa K. Mayers. The Colorado Supreme Court issued this landmark decision addressing insurance coverage for the cities of Littleton and Englewood at the Lowry Landfill. It held that insurance companies issuing standard form comprehensive liability (CGL) insurance policies had to defend the cities against the EPA’s allegations of environmental liability under Superfund.
- Comprehensive General Liability Insurance–How to Locate Lost or Missing Policies in Reconstructing Insurance Coverage for Environmental Damage Claims, Trial Talk, Vol. 48, Issue 4, August, 1999
- Reconstructing Insurance Coverage for Environmental Damages Claims from Secondary Sources, Trial Talk, Vol. 47, Issue 8, August, 1998
- Recovery of Non-Economic Damages in Delayed Diagnosis of Cancer Cases, William J. Brady and Lisa K. Mayers, 27 Colo. Law. 95 (Nov. 1998)
- The Law of Hazardous Waste and Toxic Torts, 27 Colo. Law. 95 (Nov. 1998)
- Co-Author of Treatise Environmental Insurance Coverage: Key Issues and Answers, National Business Institute, November, 1996
- Contributor, “Negligent Or Not?” Journal of Dermatopathology: Practical and Conceptual, July-Sept. 2001;July-Sept. 2000; July-Sept. 1999; April-June 1999; Jan.-Mar. 1999; Jan.-Mar. 1997;July-Sept. 1997 and Jan.-Mar. 1996
- Insurance Coverage for Environmental Claims, Trial Talk, Vol. 41, Issue 1, January, 1992
- Series: Environmental Insurance Law, Parts One and Two, “Will Business Insurance Policies Cover Environmental Damage Costs?” The Daily Journal, Vol. 95, Nos. 224 and 229, April 9th and 16th, 1992
- Recent Attempts to Amend CERCLA and SARA, Trial Talk, Vol. 41, Issue 10, November 1992
- The Liability of Psychotherapists, Craig Rehabilitation Hospital, Denver, 1989 (revised)
- The Liability of Psychotherapists, Craig Rehabilitation Hospital, Denver, 1984
- Baxter v. Palmigiano: The Process Due Prisoners, Inside and Outside of Prison Walls, ABA Administrative Law Review, Spring 1977
List of Presentations
- Aspects of the European Union Environmental Directive and “Assurances Environnementaux”, Intersol 2008, Paris, France
- Environmental Insurance Coverage Seminar
- Colorado Special District Association, 2000 Annual Seminar on Municipal Law
- Colorado Municipal League and CML Municipal Attorneys Section, 1999 Environmental Regulation of Colorado Real Property
- CLE in Colorado , Spring, 1997 Environmental Insurance Coverage Seminar
- Colorado Municipal League, 1997 Environmental Insurance Coverage Seminar
- National Business Institute, 1996 Environmental Insurance Coverage Seminar
- CLE in Colorado Inc., 1995 Environmental Insurance Coverage Seminar
- Colorado Trial Lawyer’s Association, 1991, 1992 and 1994 Environmental Insurance Coverage Seminar
- International Municipal Lawyer’s Association, San Diego, Calif., 1991 The Cornerstone
- A film on due process narrated by Raymond Burr. Institute for Administrative Justice, McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, 1975 Community Service Presentations
Memberships
- Arapahoe County and Colorado Bar Associations
- The Colorado Trial Lawyers Association (Environmental Task Force 1992-present)
- Adjunct Professor, Environmental and Natural Resources Law, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, January 1, 2000 – Present
- Adjunct Professor, Graduate Environmental Policy and Management Program, University of Denver University College January 1, 2000 – Present
Recipient of
- Life Member, National Registry of Who’s Who and listed in Who’s Who in American Law, 1990 to Present
- Denver Law Journal, General Editor, College of Law, University of Denver, 1976-1977
- West Publishing Co./Hornbook Award for Outstanding Scholastic Achievement, College of Law, University of Denver, 1976
- Rockefeller Foundation Scholarship, University of Denver, 1972-1974
Representative Cases
- Compass Insurance Co. v. City of Littleton, 984 P.2d 606(Colo.1999)
- Boryla v. Pash, 960 P.2d 123 (Colo. 1998)
- Cities of Littleton and Englewood v. Commercial Union Ins. Group, et al., 940 P.2d 948 (Colo. App. 1996)
- Hecla Mining Co. v. New Hampshire Ins. Co., 811 P.2d 1083 (Colo. 1991)
