Alan is the Founding and Partner of Jang & Associates, LLP. His practice focuses on property damage subrogation, which involves damage to homes, businesses and other structures as a result of fire, flood, explosions, water damage and landslides. Mr. Jang has handled large catastrophic damage cases, including claims arising out of wildfires, construction fires, electrical fires, flooding and landslides. He has received an "AV" Preeminent rating by the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, the highest possible rating in both legal ability and ethical standards.
For the past 30 years, Mr. Jang has represented clients in the insurance industry, acting as counsel to several of the country’s largest insurance carriers in various matters involving premises liability, products liability, insurance defense and subrogation matters. His clients have included California State Automobile Association, State Farm General Insurance Company, Farmers Insurance Group, Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, Interinsurance Exchange of the Automobile Club of Southern California, Roseburg Forest Products, Co. and BiRite Foodservice Distributors.
Mr. Jang has been involved in several important appellate decisions, resulting in the following successful published opinions:
California State Automobile Association v. City of Palo Alto, (2006) 138 Cal.App.4th 474 (The Court of Appeal held that in a subrogation claim under the theory of inverse condemnation, plaintiff only needs to prove that the public improvement failed to function as intended and that such failure caused plaintiff’s damages);
State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. v. East Bay Municipal Utilities District, (1997) 53 Cal.App.4th 769 (The Court of Appeal held that the plaintiff insurance carrier was not a “volunteer” when the insured’s loss fell within the basic grant of coverage, even though the insurance company may have had a legitimate basis to deny the claim under certain policy exclusions. For reasons of reasonableness and equity, the plaintiff was entitled to subrogation damages)
Delfino v. Sloan, (1998) 20 Cal.App.4th 1429 (premises liability/negligence per se).
Mr. Jang has been involved in significant litigation involving wildland fires. In the 2007 San Diego Wild Fire Litigation cases, he obtained multi-million dollar settlements for his individual plaintiff clients. These claims arose out of fires caused by electrical power line failures. He has prosecuted claims against public utilities and others in the following wildland fires:
Poe Fire (2001) Butte County, California
Shekell Fire (2006) Ventura County, California
Happy Camp Fire (2006) Ventura County, California
Bear Fire (2007) Siskiyou County, California
Rice Canyon Fire (2007) San Diego County, California
Witch Creek Fire (2007) San Diego County, California
Catalina Island Fire (2007) Los Angeles County, California
Rich Fire (2008) Plumas County, California
Ophir Fire (2008) Butte County, California
Omo Fire (2011) El Dorado County, California
Monastery Fire (2011) Klickitat County, Washington
Flynn Fire (2012) Mendocino County, California
Taylor Bridge Fire (2012) Kittitas County, Washington
Way Fire (2014) Kern County, California
Butte Fire (2015) Calaveras County, California
Santa Rosa Fires (2017) Napa/Sonoma, California
Thomas Fires (2017) Santa Barbara/Ventura Counties, California
Camp Fire (2018) Butte County, California
Kincade Fire (2019) Sonoma County, California
Saddle Ridge Fire (2019) Los Angeles County, California
Slater Fire (2020) Siskiyou, Del Norte counties, California
Mountain View Fire (2020) Mono County, California
Dixie Fire (2021) Butte, Plumas, Shasta, Tehama Counties, California
Mosquito Fire (2022) Placer, El Dorado Counties, California
Education
University of California, Los Angeles
Juris Doctor, 1994
University of California, Berkeley
B.S., Business Administration and Management, 199
Bar Admission
California State Bar
United States District Court for the Northern District of California
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit