Alexander F. Stuart

Alexander F. Stuart

Alexander F. Stuart specializes in commercial insurance coverage and bad-faith litigation, and also practices in the areas of business, real estate and construction litigation. He is a founding shareholder of the San Jose law firm of Willoughby, Stuart, Bening & Cook, formed in 1991. He began his career with Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel in 1980, where he developed one of the first insurance coverage and bad-faith litigation practice groups in Northern California and served on the firm’s management committee. He graduated from UC Berkeley and obtained his JD from Santa Clara University, 1980.

Articles written by this author:

Determining the true policy limits for a policy-limits demand

A look at the limits of liability under five insurance scenarios demonstrates why it’s not always easy to make a true policy-limits demand

Alexander F. Stuart

2011 April


Mediation confidentiality and insurance bad faith

Don’t let the law of mediation confidentiality keep your offer to settle out of evidence in a bad-faith action

Alexander F. Stuart

2015 September