David Utley Email & Phone Number

Mr. Utley has over forty-five years of civil and administrative law personal injury trial and litigation experience in California and Federal court venues with an emphasis upon claims arising under the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, Defense Base Act, Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentalities Act and California Labor Code.Mr. Utley served as a Court-appointed Mediator in personal injury lawsuits for the Los Angeles County Superior Court beginning in 1999 and later served upon the Superior Court’s Arbitration and Settlement Conference panels. He has been invited as a guest speaker to the 2009 Northwest Longshore Claims Administrators seminar, 2010 Longshore Claims Association seminar, 2012 Chartis Defense Base Act seminar, 2013 Signal/LCA Maritime Conference, and 2014 Loyola Longshore Conference, and the Advance Consulting DBA Conference 2016. Mr. Utley has maintained an “AV- Preeminent 5.0 out of 5″ Martindale-Hubble Peer Review Rating for the past 20 years and has an AVVO.com rating of 9.8 out of 10.Mr. Utley currently represents employers and carriers regarding LHWCA, DBA and their related statutes, and the subrogation interests of employers and carriers in such matters and under the California Labor Code. He also is available as a mediator in Longshore and DBA claims in association with Longshore-DBA Mediators, Inc.David UtleyAttorney at LawSamuelsen, Gonzalez, Valenzuela & Brown LLP211 E. Ocean Blvd., Suite 500Long Beach, CA 90802(310) 831-0872(310) 831-1333 FaxSpecialties: Trial and appeal of Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, Defense Base Act, Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, Nonappropriated Funds Instrumentalities Act, and California WCAB, and the subrogation rights of employers and carriers arising from employee injuries.

Listed skills include Personal Injury, Litigation, Workers Compensation, Appeals, and 26 others.