Dolores Bastian Dalton
Dolores Bastian Dalton
Practice Areas
- Insurance Coverage
- Insurance Bad Faith Litigation
- Commerical Litigation
Education
- University of San Francisco School of Law, J.D., 1980
- University of California at Berkeley, Bachelor of Arts degree with honors, 1977
Ms. Dalton’s practice emphasizes insurance coverage, insurance bad faith litigation, commercial litigation, federal practice, and appeals. She has more than twenty years’ experience litigating complex insurance and bad faith issues on behalf of insurers and policyholders.
Ms. Dalton represented the prevailing party in Trace v. Tru-Line Builders, California Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District No. C042517, 2004 Lexis 5465 (application of Privette-Toland shield to a general contractor). She successfully obtained summary judgment in Nunez v. Bivins, Santa Cruz County No. CV152034 (2007) (insurance coverage for additional insured subcontractor), Clarendon National Insurance Company v. McCormick, San Diego No. GIE 024633 (2005) (homeowner’s insurance coverage for formerly owned property) and many other cases. She managed the litigation team for Industrial Indemnity Company in Bank of the West v. Superior Court (1992) 2 Cal. 4th 1254.
Ms. Dalton is also a trained mediator and a member of the appellate mediation panels for the California Court of Appeal, First, Third and Sixth Districts. In the last year, Ms. Dalton has successfully mediated several complex insurance coverage disputes and a multi-million dollar personal injury case.
Ms. Dalton is the author of “Advertising Liability Insurance Coverage for Unfair Competition,” 12 C.E.B. Civil Litigation Reporter 291 (November 1990); reprinted in A.B.A. Coverage (Summer 1991), Vol. II, No. 3; and “Homeowner’s Liability Coverage in Molestation Cases,” C.T.L.A.. Forum #59 (March 1988). She is a member of the Bar Association of San Francisco.
Ms. Dalton is the former chair of the City of Albany Planning Commission (2000-2002). She is also a founding member and former president of the Albany Music Fund, a nonprofit formed to preserve and enhance the music program in the City of Albany’s public schools. In 2009 – 2010, Ms. Dalton was a member of California Assembly Member Nancy Skinner’s Assembly District 14 Women of the Year Committee.
Ms. Dalton graduated with honors from the University of California at Berkeley in 1977 and received a J.D. degree in 1980 from the University of San Francisco School of Law, where she was an editor of the Law Review. In 1984, she was appointed as an assistant professor at Golden Gate University School of Law. She has also taught in the University of California at Berkeley’s Fall Program for Freshmen.
You may contact Ms. Dalton directly at ddalton@sflawfirm.com or by calling (415)248-3930.