Policy Limits Demands and the New Safe Harbors, Part 2: Florida Bad Faith in Practice, from the Demand to the Bad Faith Case

Daniel Greene, Partner | Swope, Rodante, Newsome & Steinberg

Daniel Greene is a partner at Swope, Rodante, Newsome & Steinberg, where his practice includes insurance bad faith, personal injury, legal malpractice, civil litigation, and appellate work. A trial lawyer with a reputation as a fierce advocate for his clients, he has been instrumental in obtaining multiple multi-million dollar verdicts, and his Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch recognition includes the insurance law category.

• Education & Credentials

Mr. Greene earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Florida Levin College of Law in 2017, and his B.A. in Government and Legal Studies from Bowdoin College in 2014. In law school, he served as forum editor of the Florida Law Review, where he authored an article published by the Florida Law Review Forum in 2016, worked as a teaching assistant in legal writing and appellate advocacy, volunteered as a tutor, and received a Book Award for legal research. He is a member of The Florida Bar and The Massachusetts Bar.

• Recognition & Leadership

Mr. Greene has been named to Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch from 2022 to the present in insurance law, appellate practice, legal malpractice law, and personal injury litigation for plaintiffs. His trial results include the number 13 verdict in Florida for 2019, as ranked by Top Verdict. He holds an AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has been recognized by the National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 (2023 to present) and Super Lawyers Rising Stars (2021 and 2023 to present).

• Professional Involvement

During law school, Mr. Greene interned with the American Civil Liberties Union, preparing motions, deposition outlines, and legal memoranda in a broad range of cases. At Bowdoin, he played on the baseball and golf teams for four years and received the Francis S. Dane Baseball Trophy his senior year for character, sportsmanship, and enthusiasm for the game.

• Experience

Mr. Greene joined Swope, Rodante, Newsome & Steinberg soon after graduating from law school in 2017, and his practice there centers on insurance bad faith and personal injury litigation, with additional work in legal malpractice, civil litigation, and appellate matters. He has been instrumental in obtaining multiple multi-million dollar verdicts at trial, and he approaches every case with a focus on securing an effective and efficient recovery for his clients.

SESSION 1 – The Life of the Claim: Spotting Bad Faith, Demands, and the Insurer’s Response | 2:30pm – 3:30pm

This session follows the early life of an insurance claim from the practitioner’s perspective, beginning with how to spot bad faith issues as the underlying claim develops. It then turns to preparing demands and creating meaningful opportunities to settle, and closes with what to look for in an insurer’s response to a demand.

BREAK | 3:30pm – 3:40pm

SESSION 2 – Protecting the Bad Faith Case: Communications, Multi-Party Claims, and Resolving the Underlying Case | 3:40pm – 4:40pm

This session addresses the circumstances that shape a later bad faith case. It examines how communications between the parties can affect that case, how to handle multi-party and multiple-claimant cases when there may not be enough insurance to resolve every claim, and how to resolve the underlying case while protecting potential bad faith issues.