Wayne Taylor

Wayne Taylor is an AV rated trial lawyer who joined Mozley, Finlayson & Loggins LLP as a partner in 1995. For the past 26 years, Mr. Taylor has maintained a national practice representing insurers primarily in complex insurance coverage and bad faith matters, including commercial property and business interruption, bad faith and extra-contractual litigation, excess and surplus lines coverage, builder's risk, boiler and machinery, suspected arson and fraudulent claims, Chinese drywall, domestic intrastate and interstate motor truck carrier liability, warehouseman's legal liability, and jewelers block. He has extensive experience in third-party liability analysis and litigation, including general liability, environmental and complex torts, directors and officers, professional liability (errors and omissions), advertising injury and intellectual property, construction defects, and employment practices liability. Mr. Taylor has handled substantial property loss claims throughout the United States, including a number of claims related to major catastrophes such as September 11, 2001, the 2004 hurricanes in Florida and Hurricane Katrina.

Mr. Taylor has handled claims related to real property of virtually every scale, ranging from homeowner's claims to claims on substantial shopping malls, hotels, manufacturing facilities, and major sports venues around the country. Mr. Taylor also provides representation to insurers in subrogation matters. Mr. Taylor's clients retain him on a regional and national basis, trusting his coverage counsel in major claims. Recent engagements include a claim of more than $16 million in New York and two hurricane related claims totaling more than $100 million in Florida. Mr. Taylor is a trained and certified mediator, specializing in insurance coverage disputes, and an umpire certified by The Windstorm Insurance Network.

Mr. Taylor is the co-author of "Detective and Corrosive Drywall: Analyzing First-Party Coverage Issues," published in the Fall 2010 issue of the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal, 46 Tort Trial & Ins. Prac. L.J. 63 (2011). Mr. Taylor lectures frequently to lawyers and insurance industry personnel throughout the country on a wide range of topics involving insurance coverage, bad faith and the investigation of suspected arson and fraudulent insurance claims. Mr. Taylor was born in Rockledge, Florida, and has lived in Atlanta since graduating from Emory University. Mr. Taylor was admitted to the State Bar of Georgia in 1985. He is a member of the American, Federal and Atlanta Bar Associations. He is also a member of the Defense Research Institute, Inc., and The Windstorm Insurance Network.

• Insurance Bad Faith
• Insurance Coverage
• Insurance Defense

Georgia

Since 1985

Partner

Mozely, Finlayson & Loggins LLP

1995 - Current

Of Counsel

Gorby & Reeves

1994 - 1995

Shareholder

McKenzie, Martin, Taylor & McConnaughey, P.C.

1991 - 1994

Partner

McKenzie & McPhail

1985 - 1991

Emory University School of Law

J.D. (1985) | Law

1982 - 1985

Honors: Emory Law School Merit Scholarship

Activities: Articles Editor, The Bankruptcy Developments Journal; Associate Justice, Emory Constitutional Council; Volunteer Income Tax Assitance; Student Division, American Bar Association; Intramural Sports

Emory University

B.A., B.A. (1982) | History and Political Science

1978 - 1982

Honors: Phi Alpha Delta Honor Society (History); Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society (Political Science); Intern, Office of Jimmy Carter (March-June 1981); Intern, Office of Washington State Senator Al Williams (June-September 1979); The Register for Prominant College Students; Dean's List

Activities: Student Government Association; Volunteer, Egleston Children's Hospital (100 hour pin awarded); College Council; Student Admissions Association; Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity; Staff Member, The Emory Wheel; Volunteer, Emory Admissions Office

Superb 10.0 Attorney Rating

AVVO, Inc.

2011

Who's Who among Executives, Professionals and Entrepreneurs

Cambridge

2011

AV Preeminent Peer Review Attorney Rating

Martindale-Hubbell

1999

Who's Who in the South and Southwest

Marquis

1999

Who's Who in American Law

Marquis

1998

North Fulton Bar Association

Member

2009 - Current

Windstorm Insurance Network

Member

2009 - Current

Georgia Defense Lawyers Association

Member

2008 - Current

Atlanta Bar Association

Member

1986 - Current

Georgia State Bar

Member

1985 - Current

Defective and Corrosive Drywall: Analyzing First-Party Coverage Issues

Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal

2011

Damage Occurring from Theft of Copper: Is the Damage Covered a Vandalism or Excluded as Theft*

Claims Advisor

September, 2011

Trained and Registered Mediator

Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution

Umpire Certification

Windstorm Insurance Network