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Peter Ehrhardt
Peter Ehrhardt graduated from the University of Minnesota law school in 1980. He moved to Alaska that same year
and began working for a small personal injury firm in Bethel, Alaska. In 1983, Mr. Ehrhardt moved to Sitka,
Alaska and worked for a small general practice firm there. In 1983 Mr. Ehrhardt moved to Kenai Alaska where
he resides today. For the past ten years Mr. Ehrhardt's practice has consisted chiefly of major civil litigation.
He was co-counsel in In Re: Glacier Bay, a class action arising out of a 1987 oil spill in upper Cook Inlet
which resulted in a $51 million settlement. He was co-counsel in In re: Sitka Pulp Mill, another class action
involving the pollution of Sitka Sound. Mr. Ehrhardt was a member of the plaintiffs' trial team which obtained
a $5 billion verdict in the In Re Exxon Valdez litigation. For his work on that case, Mr. Ehrhardt, as a
member of the trial team, received the 1995 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award from the Trial Lawyers for Public
Justice, a national organization of trial lawyers. More recently, Mr. Ehrhardt has been involved in major
consumer-oriented litigation against large corporations and insurance companies. For example, in 1999, Mr.
Ehrhardt and Rick Friedman of Friedman Rubin and White obtained a $153 million verdict against State Farm
Insurance in a case involving the wrongful termination of an agent. Currently Mr. Ehrhardt focuses on
insurance marketing fraud cases, as well as bad faith insurance litigation and environmental litigation.
Mr. Ehrhardt also is active in local community affairs. He is a past president of the Kenai Peninsula
United Way, has served on many other volunteer boards and coaches high school soccer. He has three children
and is an avid outdoorsman and skier.
Peter Ehrhardt is of counsel at Friedman, Rubin & White. |
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