Eric Brenneman

Eric Brenneman is a partner at Demler Armstrong & Rowland, LLP where he handles complex litigation, including insurance and reinsurance coverage, bad faith exposures, catastrophic personal injury, and contract disputes in their Sacramento office. In addition to working with policyholders and commercial carriers, Mr. Brenneman specializes in public entity coverage with experience spanning all related exposures, including dangerous conditions of public property, landslides, pollution, property losses, officer involved shootings, wrongful incarceration, employment practices liability, failures of social services, sexual assault and molestation, medical malpractice, COVID claims, and an array of public officials’ errors and omissions.  He’s also experienced in a variety of common and unique issues arising under commercial and personal lines coverages.  

Mr. Brenneman’s practice includes:

• Developing coverage opinions of which he has authored hundreds;
• Claims handling oversight and guidance, particularly on cases involving covered and uncovered exposures;
• First party insurance fraud investigations, including administration of over 100 examinations under oath and providing claim recommendations;
• Negotiating settlements in high exposure liability cases, including contribution from codefendants and co-insurers;
• Litigating complex coverage issues in both state, and federal court, as well as, private arbitration; including substantive coverage, claims handling, bad faith exposures, reinsurance issues, excess coverage disputes, and subrogation actions;
• Over $200M in reinsurance recoveries on behalf of ceding companies;
• Defense counsel on high exposure personal injury cases, including disputed orthopedic injuries and challenges to lien-based treatment, amputations, wrongful death, neighbor disputes, and nuisance claims.

In recognition of his outstanding track record, Mr. Brenneman has been selected for the Super Lawyers List of Northern California Rising Stars from 2016 through 2022. He is currently on the Executive Committee of the Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith Practice Group for the Primerus International Society of Law Firms. He is also a member of ARIAS US. 

Mr. Brenneman graduated with distinction from the McGeorge School of Law where he was admitted to the Traynor Honor Society. Named for three years to the Dean’s Honor List, he also received the Witkin Award for Academic Excellence in a course titled Computer Assisted Litigation. There he was staff writer and editor for the McGeorge Law Review and published two articles pertaining to recently enacted California legislation. He received two bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and Psychology from UC Davis.

EDUCATION

• University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, J.D., 2011
• University of California at Davis, Bachelors of Arts, 2007

BAR INFORMATION

• State Bar of California
• United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
• United States District Court, Eastern District
• United States District Court, Southern District
• United States District Court, Northern District
• United States District Court, Central District