Faculty Profile: Mark Bell

Mark Bell is an associate with Waller. Real estate owners, developers, architects, contractors, and suppliers have benefited from Mark Bell's assistance in a wide range of construction-related transactions and disputes. Mark handles matters involving disputed workmanship/design and delay claims. He also advises and, if necessary, litigates on behalf of policyholders in insurance-coverage issues involving:

- Builders' risk
- Commercial general liability
- Commercial property
- Professional liability insurance
- Directors' & Officer's insurance

Mark recently represented a policyholder in a CGL dispute before the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the trial court's decision in Forrest Construction v. The Cincinnati Insurance Co., 703 F.3d 359 (6th Cir. 2013).

Mark has been awarded the professional Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) insurance designation and frequently writes on insurance-coverage issues, publishing articles in the Construction Lawyer, Appleman on Insurance, Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc, Ohio Northern University Law Review, Faulkner Law Review, Northwestern Interdisciplinary Law Review and other online publications. His article on concurrent causation, published in the Connecticut Insurance Law Journal, was recently cited in an opinion by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas as well as in an amicus brief submitted to the Florida Supreme Court. Mark also serves as an editor for the CGL Reporter and contributes a regular column on construction liability insurance as an invited expert commentator with the International Risk Management Institute (IRMI).

Mark received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School, and his B.A. from Brigham Young University.