Robert W. Kettering Jr. Minneapolis, Minnesota
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| phone | 612 375-5921 (Direct Dial) 866 435-5752 (Toll-free) |
| fax | 612 339-7655 |
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Bob Kettering's areas of practice include professional and products liability, casualty and commercial litigation, insurance coverage, and bad faith disputes. He has extensive experience at the appellate level. He has been licensed in Minnesota for 36 years and in Wisconsin for 23 years and regularly practices in state and federal court in both states. He has served as trial counsel in a wide range of jury and court cases including defense jury verdicts in eight consecutive defective ladder and scaffolding cases, high exposure auto and truck accidents, professional liability cases (most recently in a six-week architectural-construction jury trial in which the firm's client was granted a directed verdict), bad faith failure to settle and inadequate defense claims against a liability insurer, sexual misconduct/repressed memory claims by a minor against a municipality's police officer, and wrongful death construction site claims. He has also defended suits over the alleged negligent destruction of computerized architectural drawings with controversial lost profit claims, defamation suits by disgruntled former employees, defamation and advertising claims by corporations against their critics and competitors, a host of insurance coverage disputes, life and disability insurance suits, and performance bond cases. He has appeared frequently before the Minnesota Court of Appeals and Supreme Court. Bob has served as mediator and neutral arbitrator and mediator in over 100 cases removed from the court system, as well as UM/UIM cases.
- Areas of Practice:
- Insurance Coverage
- Bad Faith Disputes
- Automobile Law
- Professional Liability
- Products Liability
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Law
- Bar Admissions:
- Minnesota, 1973
- Wisconsin, 1986
- U.S. District Court District of Minnesota, 1973
- U.S. District Court Western District of Wisconsin, 1986
- U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit, 1977
- Education:
- University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
1973
J.D. - Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey,
1970
A.B.
- Published Works:
- Minnesota Commercial General Liability Policy: Annotated, Co-Author, Arthur, Chapman, Kettering, Smetak & Pikala, P.A., 2008
- Surprise! My Building Sank You've Got Coverage (Maybe), Arthur, Chapman, Kettering, Smetak & Pikala, Commercial Litigation Update, April, 2004
- MDLA Release Desk Book
- Classes/Seminars Taught:
- "The CGL Professional Services Exclusion: Is it Really the New Bad Boy in Town?", 2009 Minnesota Commercial General Liability Insurance Coverage Seminar, Arthur, Chapman, Kettering, Smetak & Pikala, P.A., May 7, 2009
- "Why They Call it a Loan Receipt and More!", 2008 Minnesota Commercial General Liability Insurance Coverage Seminar, Arthur, Chapman, Kettering, Smetak & Pikala, P.A., June 19, 2009 - August 7, 2008
- 2004 Minnesota Construction Defect Claims Seminar, "Issues Unique to Product Suppliers", Arthur, Chapman, Kettering, Smetak & Pikala, P.A., June 17, 2004











