Steven B. Davis is a nationally recognized and highly experienced attorney in insurance regulatory and coverage matters. For more than 25 years, he has advised and represented insurers, reinsurers, and intermediaries on transactional and regulatory matters, including start-ups, mergers and acquisitions, affiliations, investments, intercompany matters and obtaining all necessary regulatory approvals. He is also a known resource on insurance receivership and runoff and Model Insurance Holding Companies Act issues.
Mr. Davis also provides coverage-dispute counseling and related litigation, mediation and arbitration services to property-casualty, flood/write-your-own, directors and officers, errors and omissions, life, health and long-term care insurers and reinsurers, and sophisticated commercial insureds. He routinely advises startup and troubled insurance companies as well as producers in business matters, litigation and enforcement disputes. He previously served as general counsel of the Pennsylvania Insurance Department.
Mr. Davis is a 1994 cum laude graduate of Temple University School of Law and a summa cum laude graduate of Temple University.
Areas of Practice
- Insurance and Reinsurance
Admissions
- Pennsylvania
- New Jersey
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
Education
- Temple University Beasley School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1994
- Temple University, B.A., summa cum laude, 1990
Experience
- Duane Morris LLP
- Partner, 2023-present - Stradley Ronon Steven & Young LLP
- Partner, 2006-2023 - Pennsylvania Insurance Department
- Chief Counsel, 2003-2006 - Drinker Biddle & Reath
- Senior Associate, 2001-2003
Professional Activities
Board of Governors, Saint Joseph's University Academy of Risk Management and Insurance
Fellow, American College of Coverage Counsel
American Bar Association, Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section
Philadelphia Bar Association Insurance Programs Committee
Association of Insurance Compliance Professionals
Association of Insurance and Reinsurance Runoff Companies
- Insurance Federation of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Association of Mutual Insurance Companies
Pennsylvania Bar Association
Civic and Charitable Activities
Board of Directors, Committee of Seventy
President, Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Historical Society
Philadelphia Union League