Joseph Hovermill

Practice Areas

Joe Hovermill is part of Miles & Stockbridge’s insurance coverage practice and has extensive experience in locating and securing legacy insurance coverage to cover the cost and risk of the matters he defends for them. The long-term nature of the matters he handles has required Joe to study, understand and litigate complicated corporate organization and successor-liability issues in state and federal courts around the country.

His practice focuses on the defense of manufacturers in a variety of complex product liability, toxic tort and environmental litigation regionally and nationally.

He supervises the management of mass tort, product liability and other multi-party litigation nationally for several manufacturing clients, developing and implementing coordinated litigation strategies to control or eliminate the significant exposure posed by such claims. Joe also litigates and tries complicated environmental disputes involving other companies, states and municipalities, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Justice.

Joe’s litigation includes mass torts and environmental disputes connected with a variety of allegedly toxic substances, including dioxin, PCB’s, asbestos, silica, mold, vinyl chloride, benzenes, nickel, perchlorate and TCE/PCE.

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