Brian Inamine joined Wright, Robinson in 1989. He has tried numerous cases all over Southern California. Brian has litigation experience in a variety of fields, including employment litigation, products liability, commercial litigation, legal malpractice, and class actions. His engagements are primarily in the defense of manufacturers, employers, health insurers, and legal professionals. In addition, Brian is national counsel for a health insurance cost-management company for which he provides consulting and litigation services concerning an array of commercial disputes.

PRACTICE AREAS
• Products Liability
• Labor & Employment
• Professional Liability
• Business and Commercial


PRESENTATIONS and PUBLICATIONS
• “Insurance Beefs Cross the Border,” National Law Journal (April 2, 2007)
• Speaker, Travel Health Insurance Association of Canada’s Annual Conference, April 2008, in Miami, Florida.

NOTABLE ENGAGEMENTS
• Successfully represented a non-profit movie production company against a wrongful termination lawsuit.
• Successfully represented a luxury motor car dealership in a wrongful termination lawsuit and in a sexual harassment claim.
• Successfully represented a domestic health insurer in a series of breach of contract and unfair business practices lawsuits brought by hospitals.
• Successfully represented an international health insurance cost-management company against a hospital, by prevailing on a motion to quash for lack of personal jurisdiction.
• Successfully represented an insurance company against an insurance bad faith class action lawsuit, by prevailing on a motion for summary judgmen.
• Successfully represented a Fortune 500 company against a fax blasting class action lawsuit, by prevailing on a motion for summary judgment.
• Successfully represented a pharmaceutical company in a products liability lawsuit, by prevailing on a motion for summary judgment.
• Successfully represented a bicycle manufacturer and retailer in a products liability trial, which was the first of its kind involving allegations of a defective aluminum fitting in a V-brake system.


PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
• Defense Research Institute, International Law Committee, Vice-Chair Publications
• Los Angeles County Bar Association


EDUCATION
• J.D., University of Southern California Law School, 1984
• B.A., University of Hawaii, Manoa, 1979


LICENSURE AND ADMISSIONS
• California State Bar, 1985
• All United States District Courts in California
• United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit