Timothy Mulligan

Practice Experience and Focus

Timothy Mulligan specializes in legal research and writing, especially dispositive and complex motions, filings related to trials and verdicts, and appeals. A results-oriented lawyer, Mulligan has won dispositive relief for defendants in a federal case that case-evaluated for over $1 million, and for an insurer and its insured in a subrogation and commercial insurance coverage case also with acknowledged seven-figure damages. Mulligan has worked for a trial court as well as an appellate court, where he authored two dozen authoritative published opinions in civil cases. Mulligan received numerous academic awards as a student, including Phi Beta Kappa, and is a published legal author on insurance coverage, tort reform, and causation law.

Recent Accomplishments: 2019 Dispositive Motions Granted

• Kalski v Transformer Inspection Retrofill Corp. (wrongful death)
• Still v Meijer Corp. (premises liability)
• Zygadlo v Roush Industries (employer liability)

Selected Published Decisions Authored for Court of Appeals

• Willett v Waterford Charter Twp, 271 Mich App 38, 45 (2006)
• McManamon v Redford Charter Twp, 273 Mich App 131 (2006)
• Campbell v Kovich, 273 Mich App 227 (2006)
• Kloian v Domino’s Pizza, LLC, 273 Mich App 449 (2006)
• In re Baldwin Trust, 274 Mich App 387 (2007)
• Roberts v Farmers Ins Exch, 275 Mich App 58 (2007)
• Provider Creditors Comm v United American Health Care, 275 Mich App 90 (2007)
• Morden v Grand Traverse Co, 275 Mich App 325 (2007)
• Ligon v City of Detroit, 276 Mich App 120, 124 (2007)
• Mettler Walloon, LLC v Melrose Twp, 281 Mich App 184 (2008)
• Beach v Lima Twp, 283 Mich App 504 (2009)
• Holland v Trinity Health Care Corp, 287 Mich App 524 (2010)

Decisions Litigated

• RSWW, Inc. v. City of Keego Harbor, 56 F. Supp. 2d 798 (E.D. Mich. 1999)
• Cacevic v. City of Hazel Park, 226 F.3d 483 (6th Cir. 2000)
• DiCicco v City of Grosse Pointe Woods, unpublished opinion per curiam of the Michigan Court of Appeals (2002)
• Peterson Novelties, Inc. v. City of Berkley, 305 F.3d 386 (6th Cir. 2002)
• Peterson Novelties, Inc v City of Berkley, 259 Mich App 1 (2003).

Publications

• Chains of Causation in § 1983 Actions: Speculative Links are Prohibited, Mich Defense Quarterly (forthcoming, January 2020)
• Tort Reform: The Employer as Nonparty at Fault, 21 Mich Defense Quarterly 6 (July 2004)
• Article on interpretation of “accident” in liability insurance, 73 U Det Mercy L Rev 753 (1996)

Foreign language fluency

• Spanish

Service

• Member of Alumni Association Board of Directors, University of Detroit Mercy Law School (1996-2001)

Interests

• Opera, classical music, live theatre