Lance D. Meyer

Lance D. Meyer

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Lance Meyer focuses his commercial litigation practice on insurance-coverage, construction, products liability, and other general liability matters. In his insurance-coverage practice, Lance counsels insurers on a variety of complex coverage issues, including trigger, allocation, other-insurance, duty-to-defend, bad-faith, coordination-of-coverage, and construction-defect issues, and represents them in all stages of insurance-coverage disputes in state and federal court. He has been named to the Minnesota Super Lawyers Rising Stars list for insurance coverage since 2018. In addition to insurance-coverage matters, Lance represents contractors involved in claims, arbitration, and litigation involving construction projects and businesses and individuals involved in products liability and other commercial litigation matters. Lance has also assisted clients with appeals before Minnesota’s appellate courts and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Lance is licensed in Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota and is admitted to practice before the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United District Courts for the District Court of Minnesota, Western District of Wisconsin, and District of North Dakota.  Prior to joining the firm, Lance clerked for Judges Francis J. Connolly, Michelle A. Larkin, and Louise Dovre Bjorkman of the Minnesota Court of Appeals. While attending law school, he externed for Chief Judge Michael J. Davis of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota and served on the William Mitchell Law Review.

  • William Mitchell College of Law, J.D., summa cum laude (2012)
  • Concordia University-St. Paul, B.A. (English), magna cum laude (2009)
  • Minnesota State Courts (2012)
  • United States District Court, District of Minnesota (2013)
  • Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals (2013)
  • United States District Court, Western District of Wisconsin (2014)
  • United States District Court, District of North Dakota (2015)
  • Wisconsin State Courts (2018)
  • North Dakota State Courts (2023)
  • Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association
    • Insurance Law Committee - Co Chair
  • Defense Research Institute
  • Primerus Defense Institute- Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith Defense Practice Group
  • Co-Presenter, Miller-Shugart Settlements Post-King's Cove, MDLA Quarterly Insurance Law Committee Meeting ( March2023)
  • Co-Author, Navigating the Changes to the Rules Governing Miller-Shugart Settlement Agreements in Minnesota,  Minnesota Defense (Spring/Summer 2022)
  • Co-Presenter, Insurance Coverage Case Law Update, MDLA Quarterly Insurance Law Committee Meeting (March 2022) 
  • Co-Author, Writing a Reservation of Rights: A North American Compendium ( Minnesota Chapter),  Defense Research institute (2021)
  • Co-Presenter, Restatement of Liability Insurance Update, Primerus Defense Institute Fall Seminar (November 2019)
  • Co-Author, The Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance has been approved: Now what? Minnesota Defense (Spring 2019)
  • Co-Presenter, The Common-Enterprise Doctrine After the Decision in Kelly v. Kraemer Construction, MDLA Construction Law Committee Meeting ( January 2018)
  • Co-Author, The Common Enterprise Defense is Alive and Well, But Still Not Without Limits. Minnesota Defense (Fall 2017)
  • Co-Author, Condo Developer Held Liable for Design Construction Defects Under MCIOA-Is it Finally Time for a Change?, Minnesota Defense (Winter 2017)
  • Co-Author, Insurance Bad Faith: A Compendium of State Law (Minnesota & Wisconsin Chapters), Defense Research Institute (2015)
  • Co-Author, A Survey of the Law of Non-Contractual Indemnity and Contribution (Minnesota Chapter), Products Liability Group of the Primerus Defense Institute (April 2015)
  • Co-Author, Writing a Reservation of Rights: A North American Compendium (Minnesota Chapter), Defense Research Institute (2013)
  • Prisk v. Travelers Indem, Co. of Am.,__F.4th__, 2023 WL 5493752 (8th Cir. Aug. 25, 2023)
  • Wesser v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co.,  989 N.W.2d 294 (Minn.2023) (amicus)
  • St. Matthews Church of God & Christ v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co., 981 N.W.2d 760 (Minn.2022) (amicus)
  • Poitra v. Short, 966 N.W.2d 819 (Minn.2021) (amicus)
  • King's Cove Marina, LLC v. Lambert Com. Constr. LLC,958 N.W.2d 310 (Minn.2021) (amicus)
  • Stand Up Multipositional Advantage MRI, P.A., v. Am. Family Ins. Co., 889 N.W.2d 543 (Minn. 2017) (amicus)
  • Poehler v. Cincinnati Ins. Co., 899 N.W.2d 135 (Minn. 2017) (amicus)•Wilbur v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 892 N.W.2d 521 (Minn. 2017) (amicus)
  • Wilcox v. State Farm Fire and Cas. Co., 874 N.W.2d 780 (Minn. 2016) (amicus)
  • Schroeder v. Western Nat. Mut. Ins. Co., 865 N.W.2d 66 (Minn. 2015) (amicus)
  • Publ’g House of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Am. v. Hartford Fire Ins. Co., No. 14-CV-550 JNE/BRT, 2015 WL 5472730 (D. Minn. Sept. 16, 2015)
  • Graphic Communications Local 1B Health and Welfare Fund “A” v. CVS Caremark Corp., 850 N.W.2d 682 (Minn. 2014) (amicus)