DON ERNST
 Practice Concentration:
Civil Trial Litigation, Personal Injury, Insurance Bad Faith
Background:
Born in San Luis Obispo County, graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Economics 1971, and the University of San Diego School of Law in 1975. Admitted to the California Bar in 1975. Began practice in San Diego and moved to San Luis Obispo in 1976. Partner in Ernst and Mattison since 1980, specializing in civil litigation. Extensive trial experience. Tried over 100 cases to verdict. Member American Board of Trial Advocates, American Trial Lawyers Associaton, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, President and Founder of the Central Coast Trial Lawyers Association, 1990, San Luis Obispo County Bar Association President 2002-2003, Consumer Attorneys of California board of governors from 1990 to present, and currently President-elect. Taught over 30 CEB programs on tort and insurance law from 1988 to present. Authored articles for Forum and the California Bar Journal on torts and civil procedure. Adjunct professor Cal Poly State University 1978 through 92. Central Coast Trial Lawyer of the Year 1998, 2002. Martindale-Hubbell rated.
Practice Areas:
Personal Injury (60%); Insurance Bad Faith (40%)
Admitted:
1975, California and U.S. District Court, Southern District of California;
1985, U.S. District Court, Central District of California
Law School:
University of San Diego, J.D., 1975
College:
Stanford University, B.A., Economics, 1971
Member:
San Luis Obispo County Bar Association (President, 2001-2002); State Bar of California; Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Trial Lawyers for Public Justice; Central Coast Trial Lawyer's Association (Founder and President, 1989-1990); Consumer Attorneys of California (Board of Governors, 1989-1999); American Board of Trial Advocates.
Biography:
Adjunct Professor and Sponsor of 8 Continuing Education Programs in Tort & Insurance Litigation, California State University, 1982-1989.
Awarded:
CCTLA Trial Lawyer of the Year, 1998, 2002.
Reported Cases:
Mariscal v. Old Republic Life Insurance Company, 42 Cal. App. 4th, 1617 (1996).
Born:
Atascadero, California, August 3, 1949
ISLN: 907572440
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CHRIS D. EDGINGTON
Practice Concentration:
Insurance and Consumer Class Action Litigation,
Insurance Bad Faith, Personal Injury, Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse
College:
B.S., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 1990
(Economics and Engineering & Applied Science)
Law School:
J.D., Hastings College of the Law, 1993
Admitted:
Admitted to California State Bar, 1994
Practicing on the Central Coast since 1999 and at Ernst and Mattison since 2001
Member:
State Bar of California, Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC), American Trial Lawyer's Association (ATLA)
Concentrating in the prosecution of complex litigation, first in environmental cases, and since 2001 with Ernst and Mattison, principally in insurance cases, including against Blue Cross of California, American Investors Life Insurance Company, Metropolitan Life, United Benefit Life, and Tenet Corporation.
Active involvement in all of the firm's ongoing insurance and consumer class actions, including against National Western Life, American Equity Investment Insurance, Allianz, ReliaStar, and Union Security Life Insurance.
Extensive involvement in the firm's elder and dependent adult abuse files, and consumer class actions benefitting senior citizens and/or disabled adults, including nursing home abuse, annuity and other investment sales fraud, and wrongful denial of disability benefits cases.
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