Robert Groelle has been practicing in the area of insurance defense since completing law school, following a trial practice internship with the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office. He joined a prominent insurance defense firm and was invited to be a partner less than five years after beginning practice. After twelve years with that firm, he left to form his current firm, Groelle & Salmon P.A., with another experienced litigator, David Salmon. Mr. Groelle's areas of practice and experience encompass both first and third party litigation, including bad faith, and evaluation of insurance coverage issues. Mr. Groelle has extensive trial experience, almost exclusively from the defense perspective, and has been retained as an expert witness on insurance coverage. Mr. Groelle has been rated 'AV' by the Martindale Hubbell professional rating organization, upon review by his peers. This is the highest rating conferred on practicing attorneys by Martindale Hubbell. 

Education
Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law Center, J.D., 1989

Florida Atlantic University, College of Business, B.B.A., 1983

Mr. Groelle has extensive continuing educational credits, through participation or attendance at conferences, workshops, and panel presentations by the Defense Research Institute, the Property Loss Research Bureau, the Loss Executives Association, the National Business Institute, the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, and various other organization instructional presentations.  

Professional Associations

Mr. Groelle is licensed to practice in all state courts of Florida. He is also a member of the General and Trial Bar of the United States District Courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida, and is admitted to practice before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

He is a member of the Tort and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association and the Palm Beach County Bar Association. He is also a member of Florida Defense Lawyers Association and the Defense Research Institute (DRI), including membership in the Insurance Law Committee, Trucking Law Committee, and Professional Malpractice Committee of the DRI.

Mr. Groelle is a member of the insurance industry's Loss Executives Association, the Florida Advisory Committee on Arson Prevention, and the National Society of Professional Insurance Investigators. He is also a member of the South Florida Claims Association, Palm Beach Claims Association, and West Florida Claims Association. He is a past member of the Florida Trial Lawyers Association.  

Lectures, Seminars, and Publications
Mr. Groelle has delivered numerous educational presentations and presented case law analysis, oral and published, to forums within the insurance industry and other public arenas. He has presented continuing education courses and instructional workshops for the Florida Advisory Committee on Arson Prevention; at the annual Powers, McNalis, Moody & Groelle insurance claims seminar; for the Broward Chapter of the CPA Law Forum; the Fort Lauderdale Claims Association; at meetings of the South Florida Claims Association; for the Association of Fire Marshals of Palm Beach County; and at the Palm Beach Mariner's Club. He has also presented numerous educational and training sessions for insurance claims groups in various insurance companies, including Allstate Insurance, Prudential Property and Casualty, American Bankers Insurance, Florida Select Insurance Company and Tower Hill Insurance Group.

Mr. Groelle has been published in the Florida Defense Lawyer Association's Trial Advocate Quarterly (Collapse Claims, April 2001) and in the DRI's For the Defense [Coverage Exclusions in the 'All Risk' Homeowners Policy, April, 1999]. He served as the editor of his former firm's newsletter Briefly Speaking for over five years, and was a regular contributing author to that publication.

Community Activities
Mr. Groelle regularly volunteers his time and resources to local youth recreational and charitable programs. He is active as a youth soccer coach and serves in leadership positions with the Boy Scouts. He was a Junior Achievement business consultant for many years, teaching weekly classes in the eighth grade and senior high school levels of the Palm Beach School District. He is active in his church community and in local school programs, and recently served as co-chairman of the School Advisory Committee for his neighborhood elementary school.  

Professional Background

Groelle and Salmon, P.A.
April 2001 to Present
Wellington, Florida

Powers, McNalis, Moody & Groelle
May 1989 to April 2001
Lake Worth, Florida