Steven R. Bangerter
Managing Partner

Practice Areas: Insurance Defense; Insurance Bad Faith; Professional Negligence; Personal Injury; Business Litigation; Business Torts; Contracts; Church Law; Non-Profit Organizations; Catastrophic Injury; Brain Injury.

Admitted: 1993, California, U.S. District Court, Central and Southern Districts of California and U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1994, Utah and U.S. District Court, District of Utah

Law School: Western State University, J.D., 1993

College: University of Utah, Radiation Therapist, 1986; Arizona State University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1989

Member: Los Angeles County, Orange County and American (Member, Tort and Insurance Practice Sections) Bar Associations; State Bar of California; State Bar of Utah.

Biography: Golden Key National Honor Society. Licensed Radiation Therapist by the California and American Registries of Radiologic Technologists. Recipient, American Registry of Radiologic Technology Blue Ribbon Award, "The Ultimate Modality for Irradiation and Treatment of Breast Cancer," 1986. Holder, Cambridge Certificate in Risk Management for Churches and Schools. Adjunct Professor, Legal Environment of Business, California State University at Fullerton, 1993-1997; Saddleback College, 1997-2000. Member, Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Former Member, American Registry of Radiation Therapists and California Registry of Radiation Therapists. Previously, on the Board of Directors as a Partner with the forty-five attorney firm of Cooksey, Toolen, Gage, Duffy & Woog, based in Costa Mesa, California. Outside General Counsel for Stellar Enterprise, Inc., Mytrex Mgt., Inc., General Assembly Church of Alameda County, and Rescue Alert, Inc. Successfully handled thousands of church related cases, including allegations of molestation by pastors and other church-related personnel, allegations of misappropriation of church funds, harassment of members by excommunicated members, schisms within church ranks, negligent counseling by pastors, church outing accidents and the whole range of premises liability, and vehicular accidents.

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