About
 Education
University of Houston Law Center - Houston, Texas
Juris Doctor, 1986
Honors: Top 7%; Associate Editor, University of Houston Law Review, 1984-1986;
Order of the Coif, 1986; Order of the Barons,
1985-86;
Recipient, Texas State Bar Award for Comment, The Bank Holding Company Act Bank Definition Controversy.
Columbia College, Columbia University - New York, New York
Bachelor of Arts, English, 1983
Employment
Halloran & Sage - Hartford, Connecticut
Partner, January 1996 - January 2001
Associate, April 1989 – January 1996.
As partner for this 70 lawyer Connecticut trial firm, Mr. AppelmanI tried and litigated many of the firm’s most challenging cases. His principal areas of practice included: products liability, commercial litigation, first-party insurance/bad faith; commercial foreclosure and lender liability; and ERISA. He served as Chairman of the Defense Counsel Committee for Connecticut’s lead paint cases (1996-1999).
Representative Cases:
- Successfully represented a national insurer in an antitrust injunction trial alleging statewide conspiracy to restrain trade in the pharmaceuticals industry.
- Successfully represented a national insurer in a contested Federal Racketeering action involving interstate bank fraud committed by general agent and co-conspirators. (Responsibility for case handling and more than 50 depositions.)
- Successfully resolved a multi-plaintiff products liability action against an aircraft manufacturer arising out of the in-flight breakup of a general aviation craft.
- (Involved coordination for investigation by expert team with case settling during deposition of plaintiff’s lead expert.)
- Successfully prosecuted a large scale plaintiff’s products liability action against an international chemical manufacturer.
- Successfully represented an international automobile manufacturer in a products liability action involving brain injury arising out of an ATV accident and more than 30 depositions resulting in proof of fraudulent claim by scientific evidence.
- Successfully represented an international chemical manufacturer in a products liability action involving comprehensive burn injuries arising out of an oil drum explosion.
- Successfully represented a national insurance company in a contested first party property insurance bad faith case involving defenses based upon fraud.
- Obtained a defense verdict for a local health club in a jury trial of premises liability claim for injuries resulting in quadriplegia.
- Successfully represented a national insurer in a challenge to State of Connecticut rate setting for state hospitals through appeal to Connecticut Supreme Court.
- Obtained a defense judgment against and individual representing a national insurer in a rescission claim based upon concealed medical evidence against individual claiming disability arising from HIV positive condition (opposed by Yale Law School AIDS and Poverty Clinic.)
- Obtained a defense judgment representing a national insurer in defense of a life insurance claim under ERISA.
- Obtained a summary judgment representing a national insurer (co-counsel) on the first of twenty eight sites on environmental coverage claims brought by an international tire manufacturer, leading to a comprehensive settlement.
- Obtained a summary judgment for an international manufacturer of commercial products liability claims.
Internships
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals: New York, New York
Judge John R. Brown
Judicial Extern, January 1986-May 1986
Texas Court of Appeals: Houston, Texas
Fourteenth District
Judicial Extern, September 1985-January 1986
Associations, Affiliations, and Interests
Admitted to Connecticut and Florida State Bar
Member, Executive Committee, Litigation Section of Connecticut Bar through the year 2000
Chess Master and 1999 Connecticut State Chess Champion
Classical Piano
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