Robert S. Walton, III has been practicing law for 28 years and has received the highest rating of A/V by Martindale-Hubbell. His experience includes insurance coverage litigation in life, health and disability, commercial and personal property insurance claims, individual investors in stock-trading and retirement account disputes, and owners and directors in condominium and homeowners association disputes. He has provided counsel and advised insurers on policy drafting, regulatory compliance, internal operations including underwriting and agent-broker errors and omissions litigation.

Following graduation in 1981 with honors from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois, Mr. Walton was an attorney in the Trial Division of Allstate Insurance Company and Claims Counsel for the Montgomery Ward Insurance Company in Chicago before joining Independent Fire Insurance Company in Jacksonville, Florida where he was Assistant Vice President and Assistant General Counsel and subsequently, Assistant Vice President of Bankers Insurance Company in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Between 1996 and 2004, Mr. Walton was of counsel and later a shareholder in the Insurance Coverage and Appellate Department of Fowler White Boggs Banker. In 2004, Mr. Walton became the Managing Trial Attorney for CNA in Tampa.

Mr. Walton left CNA to become the Senior Counsel for Underwriting and Operations to Citizens Property Insurance Company in Tallahassee, Florida in 2007, and re-entered private practice in 2008.

Mr. Walton attended the NASD Institute at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of several articles on insurance coverage including Innocent Spouses and Co-Insureds Under Property Insurance, Trial Advocate Quarterly, Spring 1998; Advancing the Misrepresentation Defense: an Analysis of Different Remedies Under Florida Law, Trial Advocate Quarterly, Winter 2004; Understanding the Collapse Peril in Property Insurance Policies: a Coat of Varied Colors, Trial Advocate Quarterly, Winter 1999, which was chosen Best Article for the Year by the Florida Defense Lawyers Association.

In 2004, Mr. Walton was honored by The John Marshall Law School as its Distinguished Visiting Alumnus and by Florida Trend as one of the top 1.6% of Florida lawyers practicing in the field of insurance law. He has been invited to speak to professional groups including the Florida Division of Insurance Fraud/International Association of Special Investigations Units. Mr. Walton argued the insurance cases of Perez v. Ferrell, 875 So.2d 388 (Fla. 2nd DCA 2006), which established proper venue for an uninsured motorist suit in multiple personal injury claims, and House v. Bankers Insurance Company, 43 F. Supp. 2d 1329 (M.D. Fla. 1999), which distinguished the rejection of a proof of loss from disallowance of a flood claim. Mr. Walton also authored provisions of Chapter 718 of the Florida Condominium Act dealing with limited rights of subrogation and the ordering of unit owner and association insurance coverage, and has drafted legislation governing procedures for property insurance appraisal.

Other attorneys:
Matthew C. Scarborough, Managing Partner
Jason Hull, Partner
Mindy Miller, Partner
Kevin Davis, Associate