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title: Gene Sullivan
url: https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/gene-sullivan
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![Gene Sullivan](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/media/zoo/images/Sullivan-Gene-web_666cd89bba4915da2f33cb2c16b5921a.jpg)

# Gene Sullivan

Gene Sullivan of Sullivan & Sullivan, in the South Bay, has built a reputation over 20 years as a fierce litigator, winning multiple 7-figure verdicts. He specializes in serious injury and death cases with a special interest in motorcycle accidents.

### Articles written by this author:

## [Expert witnesses in the premises-liability trial](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2017-november/expert-witnesses-in-the-premises-liability-trial "Expert witnesses in the premises-liability trial")

The type of experts you may need, and the best way to use them at trial

[Gene Sullivan](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/gene-sullivan "Gene Sullivan")

[2017 November](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2017-november)

## [The common pitfalls of a slip-and-fall case](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2020-october/the-common-pitfalls-of-a-slip-and-fall-case "The common pitfalls of a slip-and-fall case")

Recent premises-liability verdict against Ralphs Grocery Store showcases ways to defeat defense tactics

[Gene Sullivan](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/gene-sullivan "Gene Sullivan")

[2020 October](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2020-october)

[![Putting the employer on the hook in an auto case](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/media/zoo/images/Sullivan_istock-1284854496_77bde6fed1ef1b98c8ce5beb1eeb1102.jpg)](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2021-june/putting-the-employer-on-the-hook-in-an-auto-case "Putting the employer on the hook in an auto case")

## [Putting the employer on the hook in an auto case](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2021-june/putting-the-employer-on-the-hook-in-an-auto-case "Putting the employer on the hook in an auto case")

Finding the commercial policy and opening it up with vicarious liability imputed to the employer through course-and-scope issues

[Gene Sullivan](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/gene-sullivan "Gene Sullivan")

[2021 June](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2021-june)

[![The buck stops here!](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/media/zoo/images/Sullivan-istock-1034337738_d37cb0278c99be9cd049d7142219cf34.jpg)](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2022-march/the-buck-stops-here "The buck stops here!")

## [The buck stops here!](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2022-march/the-buck-stops-here "The buck stops here!")

Understanding a landowner’s nondelegable duty as distinguished from that of a tenant or maintenance company

[Gene Sullivan](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/gene-sullivan "Gene Sullivan")

[2022 March](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2022-march)

## [They’re not paying your pre-litigation policy-limit demand. Now what?](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2023-august/they-re-not-paying-your-pre-litigation-policy-limit-demand-now-what "They’re not paying your pre-litigation policy-limit demand. Now what?")

Use the litigation process to give insurers every possible chance to do the right thing, and to force them when they don’t want to

[Gene Sullivan](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/gene-sullivan "Gene Sullivan")
[Ryan Medler](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/ryan-medler "Ryan Medler")

[2023 August](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2023-august)