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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Widener University School of Law
Michael J. Diamond focuses on multiple practice areas including retail liability, motor vehicle liability, general liability, first-party property claims, and transportation claims. Mr. Diamond, one of the founding partners of Chartwell Law, has successfully defended personal injury matters on behalf of insured and self-insured entities involving national retailers, supermarkets, family-owned stores, fast-food franchises, and convenience stores.
Mr. Diamond dedicates a significant portion of his practice to the defense of motor vehicle and trucking matters regularly, in state and federal court, involving individual and corporate defendants. He represents transportation and shipping companies and their insurers in connection with cargo and shipping claims. Additionally, he also regularly defends homeowners against claims for injury, accident and/or dog bite incidents on residential properties.
Mr. Diamond began his career working in the insurance industry as a claims specialist and supervisor at two prominent insurance companies in the Greater Philadelphia area. His background benefits him in the analysis of insurance policy terms and provisions allowing for aggressive defense of these claims.
Mr. Diamond has accomplished many feats in his representative matters including successfully defended a motorcycle versus motor vehicle accident in Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas; secured summary judgment on behalf of a retail grocery store in connection with a slip and fall on a foreign substance; litigated, arbitrated, and tried first-party property and premises liability matters in state court; secured summary judgment on behalf of a university based upon statutory exclusive remedy defenses; and settled an MTC case at trial on behalf of Certain Underwriters at Lloyds of London with no payments being made under the policy.
Pennsylvania Bar Association
Philadelphia Bar Association
National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO)
Claims and Litigation Management Alliance
Selected to Pennsylvania Super Lawyers® (2007-2022)
“Claims Investigation, Documentation, and Dispute Resolution,” Donovan Hatem Design Professional Roundtable, 2021
“COVID-19 and Its Impact on Claims Against Professionals,” Claims Litigation Management Annual Conference, August 2021
“Contractual Indemnification and Insurance Procurement Provisions for Design Professionals,” Donovan Hatem Design Professional Roundtable, 2020
“Measuring Design Professional Performance,” Donovan Hatem Design Professional Roundtable, 2020
“Thieves Among Us: Trends & Topics in Cargo Theft,” Claims Litigation Management Annual Conference, 2017
“Bringing Experts into the Folds of Litigation Management: Can It Be Done?” Claims Litigation Management Annual Conference, April 10, 2014
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
Widener University School of Law
J.D., cum laude, 1993
West Chester University
B.A., 1986
Michael J. Diamond focuses on multiple practice areas including retail liability, motor vehicle liability, general liability, first-party property claims, and transportation claims. Mr. Diamond, one of the founding partners of Chartwell Law, has successfully defended personal injury matters on behalf of insured and self-insured entities involving national retailers, supermarkets, family-owned stores, fast-food franchises, and convenience stores.
Mr. Diamond dedicates a significant portion of his practice to the defense of motor vehicle and trucking matters regularly, in state and federal court, involving individual and corporate defendants. He represents transportation and shipping companies and their insurers in connection with cargo and shipping claims. Additionally, he also regularly defends homeowners against claims for injury, accident and/or dog bite incidents on residential properties.
Mr. Diamond began his career working in the insurance industry as a claims specialist and supervisor at two prominent insurance companies in the Greater Philadelphia area. His background benefits him in the analysis of insurance policy terms and provisions allowing for aggressive defense of these claims.
Mr. Diamond has accomplished many feats in his representative matters including successfully defended a motorcycle versus motor vehicle accident in Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas; secured summary judgment on behalf of a retail grocery store in connection with a slip and fall on a foreign substance; litigated, arbitrated, and tried first-party property and premises liability matters in state court; secured summary judgment on behalf of a university based upon statutory exclusive remedy defenses; and settled an MTC case at trial on behalf of Certain Underwriters at Lloyds of London with no payments being made under the policy.
Pennsylvania Bar Association
Philadelphia Bar Association
National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO)
Claims and Litigation Management Alliance
Selected to Pennsylvania Super Lawyers® (2007-2022)
“Claims Investigation, Documentation, and Dispute Resolution,” Donovan Hatem Design Professional Roundtable, 2021
“COVID-19 and Its Impact on Claims Against Professionals,” Claims Litigation Management Annual Conference, August 2021
“Contractual Indemnification and Insurance Procurement Provisions for Design Professionals,” Donovan Hatem Design Professional Roundtable, 2020
“Measuring Design Professional Performance,” Donovan Hatem Design Professional Roundtable, 2020
“Thieves Among Us: Trends & Topics in Cargo Theft,” Claims Litigation Management Annual Conference, 2017
“Bringing Experts into the Folds of Litigation Management: Can It Be Done?” Claims Litigation Management Annual Conference, April 10, 2014
“Lost in Translation: How Litigants are Attempting to Breathe Life into Dead Failure to Warn Claims,” 4 Litigation Commentary & Review 301 (2012)
“Deference to the Law of Nations: The Intersection Between the New York Convention, the Convention Act, the McCarran-Ferguson Act, and State-Anti Insurance Arbitration Statutes,” 33 T. JEFFERSON. L. REV. 81 (2011)
“Betting the Farm: The TIC Turf War and Why TICS Constitute Investment Contracts Under Federal Securities Laws,” 1 WM. & MARY BUS. L. REV. 483 (2010)
