Don A. Pisacano joined the firm in 2006. Don is a 1990 graduate of the University of Kentucky College of Law and concentrates his practice in the areas of civil litigation, with an emphasis on personal injury, tort litigation, insurance defense, and commercial litigation. Don leads the MGM Insurance Defense team and he has represented a dozen national insurers over the entire Commonwealth of Kentucky in his 25 years of practice. His representative matters include defense of personal injury lawsuits, extracontractual (”bad faith”) claims, defense of homeowners’ claims and coverage issues (including fraud and misrepresentation, windstorm, hail, roofing, arson, building and design defects, vandalism, gas explosions), forklift and tractor injuries, subsidence, mortgage/foreclosure, cattle losses and premises liability claims. He has an AV rating (Preeminent) by the Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Review Service.
On February 6, 2017, the insurance defense practice group, led by Don Pisacano, obtained a summary judgment for its client, Kentucky Growers Insurance Company, in Ortiz v. Kentucky Growers Insurance Company. The plaintiffs sought to recover under their homeowners’ policy for a fire loss. However, they misrepresented their ownership interest...
Don Pisacano successfully tried a Landlord Tenant case in Bourbon County Circuit Court and obtained a defense verdict for the farm owner/landlord in a premises liability personal injury claim arising from a trip and fall on an alleged defective cattle guard. Plaintiff was seeking damages for a fractured ankle and...
On behalf of Kentucky Growers Insurance, Don Pisacano obtained summary judgment against a national mortgage company’s claim for proceeds arising from a foreclosure action and subsequent fire loss. See the November 23, 2016 Order in Papastefanou v. Kentucky Growers, et al.
...In a case that traversed from trial court, to court of appeals, back to the trial court, back to the court of appeals and then to supreme court, Kentucky’s highest court changed the law on noncompetition agreements and the consideration required for an enforceable restrictive covenant. Company sued former employee...
Justin Crawford, a Sergeant in the Custody Bureau at the Fayette County Detention Center, came to Miller, Griffin & Marks with a complaint: the Detention Center administrators routinely refused to allow officers to take legally required meal and rest breaks, were not fairly compensating them for the true number of...
