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Committees > Bar Committees > Lawyers Fund for Client Protection > Lawyers Fund for Client Protection – Annual Claims Paid

Lawyers Fund for Client Protection – Annual Claims Paid

ANNUAL CLAIMS PAID

The West Virginia State Bars Lawyers Fund for Client Protection has paid the following claims:

2024
Thomas Evans, III – $750

2023
Scott Elswick – $34,350
Patrick Cottrell – $1,500
Barbara Harmon Schamberger – $5,000

2022
Scott E. Elswick – $34,639.65

2021
E. Lavoyd Morgan, Jr. – $6,900
Patrick Cottrell – $805

2020
E. Lavoyd Morgan, Jr. – $4,000

2019
David L. White – $5,000
Rockwell Seay – $2,000
Rockwell Seay – $2,500

2018
Rebecca Eritano – $14,100
Richard E. Hardison, Jr. – $10,000
Thorn H. Thorn – $3,160
David L. White – $7,150

2017
Thorn H. Thorn – $6,500
Thorn H. Thorn – $2,500
David L. White – $7,500
David L. White – $3,350
Thorn H. Thorn – $6,000
Rockwell Seay – $3,500
David L. White – $4,900

2016
Frank Armada – $10,000.00
Jason Grubb – $1,500.00
Richard Hardison –  $13,595.00
Ronald Hatfield – $10,000.00
Thorn H. Thorn – $9,387.50
David L. White – $5,000.00

2015
Harold Albertson – $10,000.00
R. Michael Martin – $19,901.37
Michael Niggemyer – $1,312.20
Thorn H. Thorn – $1,400.00

2014
Harold Albertson $20,000.00
Anthony Serreno $20,000.00

2013
Charles Ferguson, IV $2,750.00
Belinda Morton $4,350.00
Harold Albertson $10,000.00

2012
Dennie S. Morgan $1,600.00
John Grafton $2,500.00
Martin R. Smith, Jr. $13,300.00
Christopher Bledsoe $500.00
Jennifer Wilcox McGinley WilcosMcGinley $3,400.00
Thomas Jason Drake $1,000.00

2011
John Bremer $4,000.00
Kenneth Ford $1,500.00
Joseph P. Albright, Jr. $2,000.00
Geoffrey Ekenasi $1,800.00
Christopher Bledsoe $5,200.00
Jeremy Vickers $1,420.00

2010
Michael Cline $109.83
C. Patrick Carrick $7251.00
C. Patrick Carrick $ 2,861.79
John L. Bremer $870.00
Michael Cline $2,358.16
C. Patrick Carrick $4,633.50
Jeff Bartley $1,500.00
Patrick B. Anderson $500.00
Brian Areford $483.00
Brian Areford $640.68
John L. Bremer $1,450
Donald Paul Cookman $10,000.

2009
Donald P. Cookman $10,000.00
David Rigge $ 850.00
C. Patrick Carrick $ 4,561.17
C. Patrick Carrick $ 2,319.00
William H. Duty $ 5,079.00
James Scott Rowe $ 7,088.00
C. Patrick Carrick $ 490.50
Raymond David Brown $ 7,980.00
C. Patrick Carrick $ 4,561.19
Paul E. Lane $ 1,700.00
C. Patrick Carrick $ 3,420.91
C. Patrick Carrick $ 4,236.60
James R. Henry $ 7,500.00
John L. Bremer $ 1,370.00
C. Patrick Carrick $ 410.65

2008
Heidi J. Myers $2,500.00
Heidi J. Myers $5,500.00

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