Kevin Young is a trial lawyer whose practice emphasizes insurance coverage, class actions, products liability, construction, business torts, and commercial matters.
During his 32 years of practice, Kevin has represented both large and small companies in contract disputes, product liability defense, and complex insurance coverage cases.
Kevin chairs the Tucker Ellis Insurance Group. In his insurance practice, he represents clients in extra-contractual matters, as well as complex coverage issues. He has successfully resolved a myriad of coverage cases that arise from issues such as the interpretation of commercial general liability policies, director and officer policies, professional liability policies, employment practices liability, and Errors and Omissions policies, as well as various specialty policies, including malicious product tampering/accidental product contamination, kidnap and ransom, and Non-Trucking Liability.
Kevin has also successfully resolved class action suits involving insurance issues, as well as numerous claims arising from allegations of defective product manufacture. He has litigated construction and business contract claims involving Cleveland’s sports stadiums and schools and other public and private construction projects. Kevin has also tried or resolved a host of commercial contract issues, and was responsible for coordinating and managing the defense of over 90 lawsuits arising from a concrete terrace collapse in Ohio.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Kevin has lived and worked in Connecticut, Washington, D.C., and Cleveland, Ohio. His representation of clients has taken him to an international arbitration in Geneva, Switzerland, as well as many states in the United States, including Ohio, California, Texas, Kentucky, Indiana, Utah, Michigan, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and New York.
A regular faculty member at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Kevin instructs and lectures on topics including the taking and defending of depositions and general trial skills. He is also an adjunct professor of law at Case Western Reserve School of Law where his courses have included trial tactics and client counseling and representation.
Ranked in Chambers USA in Litigation: General Commercial (Ohio), he is described as “very responsive and provides thoughtful responses. Nothing is off the cuff with him, he digs into the details.”