MVRMA Service Providers

Surdyk, Dowd & Turner, 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 serving southwest Ohio.
• Organized in 1976.
• Staff of 8 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.
• Primarily focuses on defense work in civil litigation.
• Areas of expertise include product liability, governmental immunity, professional negligence, premises liability, police misconduct, civil rights, employment practices, discrimination, sexual harassment, zoning and land use issues.
• Attorneys maintain memberships in the Ohio State Bar Association, Dayton Bar Association, Defense Research Institute, and the Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys.

 

Dinsmore & Shohl

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

• Eight offices including Dayton, Hamilton, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio, Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Nashville, Tennessee and Charleston, West Virginia.
• Organized in 1908.
• Staff of 245 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.