Daniel S. Houser

In his ten years as a litigator, Daniel S. Houser has prosecuted a broad variety of civil cases, from investigation through appeal. Dan's jury-trial experience includes claims for breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, property damage, and insurance coverage. For the past three years Dan's practice has focused on construction-defect, insurance-bad-faith, and insurance-coverage litigation.

Dan is particularly proud of the repair cost recoveries he has procured for homeowners and associations who have been forced to rely upon difficult, unusual, or novel legal theories. In addition to warranty claims, Dan has litigated claims for property insurance coverage on older projects where hidden decay has caused substantial structural impairment, consumer-protection-act violations related to marketing and deceptive "warranty" programs, breach of the implied warranty of suitability, and claims based on insurer bad faith. In the appellate arena, Dan recently won a ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that a condominium association’s insurance policy covers property damage caused by the negligence of the association's original officer and director (who was appointed by the developer) in failing to identify and repair construction defects while serving on the association’s Board of Directors.

Dan earned his B.A. at Seattle Pacific University and his J.D. at the University of Southern California where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal. Washington Law & Politics recognized Dan as a “rising star” for 2005.