MVRMA Service Providers

Surdyk, Dowd & Turner Co. L.P.A.

This firm has been engaged as Corporate Counsel to MVRMA providing General Corporate Legal Advice to the Association. The firm also provides Defense Counsel and Litigation Services to MVRMA.

• Office in Dayton and Miamisburg serving southwest Ohio.
• Organized in 1976.
• Staff of 11 full-time attorneys.
• Robert J. Surdyk and Edward J. Dowd maintain the highest rating of legal ability issued by the Martindale- Hubbell Law Directory as does the firm.
• Attorneys maintain memberships in the Ohio State Bar Association, Dayton Bar Association, Defense Research Institute, and the Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys.
• All attorneys are licensed to practice in all courts in the State of Ohio; the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Specific attorneys are licensed to practice before the United States Supreme Court; the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio; the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan; all state and federal courts in the State of Kentucky; and all state courts in the State of New York.  All attorneys are licensed to practice in all courts in the State of Ohio; the United States District Court for the
• Practice focuses on civil litigation and counseling in areas of civil rights, governmental law, police misconduct, professional negligence, land use planning, zoning, premises liability, employment practices, employment discrimination, governmental immunity, personal injury, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA); Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)

Dinsmore & Shohl

This firm has been engaged to provide Defense Counsel and Litigation Services to MVRMA.

• Nine offices including Dayton, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio, Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Charleston, Morgantown and Wheeling, West Virginia.
• Organized in 1908.
• Staff of 385 full-time attorneys.
• Firm maintains the highest rating of legal ability issued by the Martindale- Hubbell Law Directory.
• Primarily focuses on defense work in civil litigation.
• Areas of expertise include: litigation in all liability areas, intellectual property, banking and financial institutions, business and corporate law, corporate finance and securities, environmental law, estates and trusts, health care and hospitals, labor and employment law, real estate and taxation.

Alliant Insurance Services Inc.

This firm provides insurance brokering and professional risk management advisory services to MVRMA.  With more than 1,000 employees and over $2 billion in premiums, Alliant Insurance Services, Inc. is the 13th largest insurance retail broker in the nation.

Alliant Insurance Services, Inc., formerly Driver Alliant was formed by the 2001 merger of the Robert F. Driver Co., Inc. with Alliant Resources Group, Inc.  Mr. Robert F. Driver established the Robert F. Driver, Co., Inc. in 1925.  Alliant Insurance Services is a national organization composed of large regional and specialty retail brokers across the United States.  

The Newport Beach office was established in 1977 when Robert F. Driver Co., Inc. entered the public entity business with the creation of Robert F. Driver Associates.  This Newport Beach-based unit has become a recognized leader in this specialized market sector with prominence on a national scale through a growing number of out-of-state public entity client relationships.  The San Francisco office was established in November 1998 through the acquisition of Sedgwick of California, Inc.'s "Public Entity Group."  The two offices combined are believed to be the largest collection of insurance professionals focused purely on the public sector in the  United States.  With over $500,000,000 placed in public entity premiums and premium equivalents, Alliant  is the  leader in providing specialty brokerage services to the public sector.