 | Richard B. Allyn
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P.
2800 LaSalle Plaza, 800 LaSalle Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55402
612-349-8500 (firm)
612-339-4181 (fax)
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Practice Groups
Experience
- Particular experience with large catastrophic property and casualty losses.
- Examples of losses include the Northeast Power Outage of 2003, World Trade Center building collapse, numerous power
plant losses, water damaged structures in an ocean-side resort, a food processing plant, warehouses, a telephone switching
station, major office buildings, an airplane hanger, a grain elevator, chemical damage, a paper mill, a commercial horse
barn, a mining facility, and a world famous painting. These losses involved fires, explosions, floods, construction
defects, mold, electrical malfunctions, chemical spills, arson, and terroristic acts.
- Involved in counseling and representing insurance companies and private corporations involved in coverage disputes,
including property, liability, intellectual property, life insurance, employment practices, products liability,
construction and builders risk, as well as anti-trust, fraud, and wrongful market conduct cases in court and arbitration.
Outside Experience
- As Minnesota Solicitor General, supervised the Attorney General’s principal litigation office where he had years of
experience in motion, civil and criminal trial and appellate litigation, including insurance related cases. During this
time, he presented two arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court; Malone v. White Motor Co., 425 U.S. 497 (1979), and
Marquette National Bank v. First Omaha Service Corp., 439 U.S. 299 (1978).
- While with the Minnesota Attorney General’s office, Mr. Allyn headed the Criminal Division. Experience included
trials, appeals and Grand Jury presentations.
Selected Results*
- Silver Lake Dam Collapse: Multi-million dollar recovery for damage to powerhouse from catastrophic upstream dam
collapse.
- Rouge Powerhouse explosion: Multi-million dollar arbitration award for boiler explosion.
- Chicago flooded tunnel cases: Multi-million dollar recoveries for several large buildings damaged by a sudden
break in the freight tunnel system under the Chicago loop.
- Illinois Bell Hinsdale Central Office fire: Recovery from a telephone switching station fire caused by runaway
electrical arcing.
- Co-lead counsel in a trial defense of a multi-million dollar claim against insurance company. The six month trial
resulted in a jury verdict for insurer.
- Resolution of a number of claims for pollution coverage, professional errors and omissions, and other liability issues.
- Falk Industries factory explosion in Milwaukee: Defense of negligent engineering and inspection claims in fatal
LP gas explosion.
* Past results are reported to provide the reader with an indication of the type of litigation in which we practice and
does not and should not be construed to create an expectation of result in any other case as all cases are dependent upon
their own unique fact situation and applicable law.
Recognition
- Professional Excellence Award," from the Minnesota State Bar Association, awarded to a group of lawyers who
represented survivors of the 35W Bridge Collapse on a pro bono basis (2009)
Memberships
- American Bar Association (Tort and Insurance Practice Section)
Civic Associations
- Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, St. Paul, MN, Volunteer
- Board of Commissioners, Bass Lake Rehabilitation District
Bar Admissions
- Minnesota
- Wisconsin
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin
- U.S. District Court, Minnesota
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin
- U.S. Supreme Court
Education
- University of Minnesota Law School, J.D. (1969)
- University of Minnesota, B.A.
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Q&A
| Attorney Name: | | Richard Allyn | | | | Law School Attended: | | University of Minnesota | | | | Favorite activities (besides the Law): | | Running | | | | Favorite Sports Team (if you have one), or Favorite Theater or Museum, etc: | | Minnesota Twins, all Minnesota Gopher sports, Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis Institute of Arts | | | | If you weren’t a lawyer, what would you be?: | | Teacher | | | | What do you read most often: | | New York Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune and books. | | | | Why are you proud to be a lawyer?: | | It's a great profession for solving problems and helping people. | | | |
Richard Allyn News
Articles
Selected Speeches
- September 11, 2011 Terrorist Attacks: Duties of Corporate Directors and Officers in Preparation and Execution of Disaster Avoidance and Recovery
ABA TIPS, Teleconference (September 16, 2011)
- Insurance Coverage for Intellectual Property
Insurance Law 2005, St. Paul, MN (August 23, 2005)
- Service Interruption Claims After Disaster
The Loss Executives Association (June 17-18, 2004)
- Getting Something Back: Subrogating After the Catastrophe
ABA Tort and Insurance Practice Section, New York, NY (November 5, 2001) and The Loss Executives Association,
Portland, ME (June 12-13, 2002)
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