Mark G. Bonino has almost thirty years of experience handling Appellate, Insurance Coverage, and Bad Faith cases.

Mr. Bonino is admitted to practice before all of the Courts of the State of California, all of the United States District Courts for California (Northern, Central, Southern and Eastern), and the Districts of Arizona and Hawaii. He is also admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the Ninth Circuit, and the Federal Circuit.

Mr. Bonino has handled over 500 appeals to completion and argued a number of important cases in the California Supreme Court and the Courts of Appeal such as: Privette v. Superior Court (1993) 5 Cal.4th 689 [doctrine of peculiar risk held inapplicable to employees of subcontractors]; General Casualty v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (2005) 131 Cal.App.4th 345 [aka: RemedyTemp - depublished - insurer for a special employer does not provide workers' compensation coverage to temporary employees after the general employers' insurer becomes insolvent]; Frank and Fredus v. Allstate (1996) 45 Cal.App.4th 461 [employment practices exclusion held to preclude defense in post-termination defamation claim]; Loth v. Truck-A-Way (1998) 60 Cal.App.4th 757 [expert testimony on hedonic damages held inadmissible in a personal injury action]; Smith v. State Farm (1992) 5 Cal.App.4th 1104 [stipulated judgment held unenforceable against the insurer]; Equitable v. Berry (1989) 212 Cal.App.3d 832 [disability policy held not to apply to manic-depressive illness]; Barker v. Hull (1987) 191 Cal.App.3d 221 [ruling on motion held to act as collateral estoppel and bar against later legal malpractice claim]; North Co. Contractors v. Touchstone (1994) 27 Cal.App.4th 1085 [settlement held in good faith where the limited available insurance was considered by the trial court]; Santiago v. Employee Benefits (1985) 168 Cal.App.3d 898 [workers compensation insurer held not liable for bad faith failure to settle].

In addition to the appeals, Mr. Bonino has tried bad faith cases to verdict in four different northern California counties and in the U. S. district court and has resolved numerous cases in favor of the defendants by dispositive demurrer, judgment on the pleadings or motion for summary judgment.

A native of Southern California, Mr. Bonino attended college at the University of California at Davis, graduating in 1973; he then attended law school at Santa Clara University School of Law, graduating cum laude in 1976. Upon graduation, he served for one and one-half years as law clerk to the presiding judge of the Superior Court of San Mateo County.

He is the Secretary-Treasurer of the Association of Defense Counsel for Northern California and Nevada.

ARTICLES:

Our Government in Action: The Legislature Amends the Summary Judgment Procedures (ADC Defense Comment (2002) v.17, No.3, p.6); Two Steps Forward - The California Supreme Court Raises the Bar for Legal Malpractice Actions (ADC Defense Comment (2003) v. 18, No. 3, p. 8); Punitive Damages: On the Road to Reform (IADC Defense Counsel Journal (2003) v.70, No.4, p.432.); Our Government In Action - Revisited: Proposition 64 and 17200 Reform [ADC Defense Comment (2005) v, 20, No. 1 p. 10]; and The California Supreme Court Expands the Privette Doctrine to Narrow Landowner Liability for Worker Injuries (ADC Defense Comment (2006 v.21, No. 2, p.10)

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:

Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California - 2005 Annual Meeting - Tricks & Traps In 998 and Summary Judgment Procedure - San Francisco, California, December 2005

Excess and Surplus Lines Claims Association Convention _ The Impact Of California Workers' Compensation Reform on Workers' Compensation Claims, Insurance and Torts - Santa Fe, New Mexico, December 2005;

Association of Southern California Defense Counsel - New Developments In Coverage - 2004 and 2005 - Los Angeles, California, July 2005;

Santa Clara County Bar Association Winning on Appeal Effective Oral Argument at the Court of Appeal, San Jose, California, November 2004;

Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters 2004 Annual Meeting The New World of Claim Handling and Insurance Relations Los Angeles, California, October 2004;

Association of California Insurance Companies Annual Meeting Punitive Damages One Year After Campbell Las Vegas, Nevada, July 2004;

Association of Southern California Defense Counsel New Developments In Coverage 2003 and 2004 Los Angeles, California, June 2004;

Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California Transportation Seminar Sacramento, California, May 2004;

Silicon Valley Biz Ink Forum Hot Insurance Issues: Workers Comp Crisis San Jose, California, November 2003;

Santa Clara County Bar Association 2002 Changes In Summary Judgment Law San Jose, California, January 2003;

Pacific Claims Executives Convention The New Summary Judgment and Construction Defect Legislation Monterey, California, October 2002;

Excess and Surplus Lines Claims Association Convention First and Third Party Insurance Claims After The World Trade Center Attack Monterey, California, February 2002; and

Speaker at the annual Ropers, Majeski, Kohn and Bentley Annual California Law Update The Year In Review Boston, New York, Hartford, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Irvine and Sacramento.