John J. Stumreiter
Attorney
jstumreiter@brownbrownklass.com

John J. Stumreiter is a civil litigator with more than 29 years of experience in all phases of business litigation, including insurance coverage and bad faith litigation (both plaintiff and defense, and including earthquake litigation), legal malpractice and malicious prosecution (both plaintiff and defense), appeals, real estate, employment disputes, securities fraud, antitrust, general commercial litigation, medical malpractice (plaintiff), entertainment, merchandising, and bankruptcy (including representation of creditors and other non?debtor parties). He has tried several cases and has litigated class action and other representative lawsuits in both plaintiff and defense capacities.

Mr. Stumreiter’s reported cases include: Robbin v. Fluor Corp., 835 F.2d 213 (9th Cir. 1987); Waller v. Financial Corp. of America, 828 F.2d 579 (9th Cir. 1987); Wm. Boyd Ent. v. Fireman's Fund, 2 Cal. Rptr. 2d 548 (2d Dist. 1991) (not officially published; petition for review granted); Landscape Specialties v. Laborers Int'l Union, 477 F. Supp. 17 (C.D.Cal. 1979).

Prior to coming to Brown, Brown & Klass, Mr. Stumreiter was a partner with Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman and an associate of Kindel & Anderson. He served as a law clerk to Hon. Malcolm M. Lucas in the United States District Court. He has also served as a panelist for a C.E.B. program on Civil Procedure During Trial and has served as an arbitrator for the Los Angeles Superior Court. Mr. Stumreiter received a B.A. degree with honors in 1967 from Yale University. He received his J.D. degree with honors in 1972 and an LL.M. degree in 1973, both from Harvard Law School. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1968 to 1970.