Mr. Susko is a partner in and chair of the Litigation Department. He also chairs the Life, Health, and Disability and Insurance Fraud Practice Groups. He has been a trial attorney for the past 20 years and has extensive jury trial experience in the areas of insurance fraud, disability law, bad faith and extra contractual damage claims, medical malpractice, products liability, and general commercial and negligence cases.
Mr. Susko concentrates his practice on fighting insurance fraud, including fraud in insurance applications and in the presentation of fraudulent insurance claims. The Insurance Fraud Practice Group is effective in utilizing the Insurance Fraud Prevention Act in the civil prosecution of insurance fraud, seeking attorney's fees, costs and damages where appropriate. Mr. Susko lectures extensively in the areas of insurance fraud, the trial of civil cases, including presenting the company witness for deposition and trial, and litigation of bad faith and extracontractual damage claims. Mr. Susko is a former President of the Pennsylvania Defense Institute.
Mr. Susko has a longtime commitment to the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar Associations and the Philadelphia area pro bono community. He is the immediate past President of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, which is a 30,000 member organization. He is a past Chair and present member of the PBA House of Delegates, 1998-99, and a past Chair of the PBA's Young Lawyers Division, and is serving in his third term on the PBA's Board of Governors. He is also a past Chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association's Young Lawyers Section and later served as an elected member of the Philadelphia Bar's Board of Governors. Mr. Susko is a past Chair of Project Peace, 1999-2000, dispute resolution for elementary and middle school students, and is active in the Philadelphia area pro bono community as a member of the Advisory Board of the Legal Clinic for the Disabled and as a previous member of the Board of the Homeless Advocacy Project. In 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, Mr. Susko was selected in a survey of his peers as a Pennsylvania "Super Lawyer" by Law & Politics magazine. Mr. Susko has been AV rated by the Martindale-Hubbell peer review rating system.
Mr. Susko received his Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in 1978, graduating summa cum laude, from Florida State University. He received his J.D. from Villanova University School of Law in 1981 where he served as a member of the Law Review and was selected to its Board of Editors. Mr. Susko is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Florida and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for all Districts in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.
