Peter J. Georgiton

Partner

Clients require creative, cost-effective solutions to their litigation needs. Peter, a commercial litigator, understands this and works tirelessly to aggressively represent clients, seeking unique solutions to resolve disputes favorably and with efficiency. Clients look to him to handle an array of high-stakes litigation matters in all phases, including mediation, trial, arbitration and appeal. He has represented clients in deceptive trade practice, disparagement, and tortious interference with contract disputes, breach of contract claims, antitrust claims, product liability litigation, patent litigation, closely-held corporation litigation, tort, professional liability, and transportation litigation, to name a few examples. He has represented clients in trial and appellate courts throughout Ohio and in multiple states, including the Supreme Court of Ohio and the United States Courts of Appeal for the Sixth and Federal Circuits.

Peter also focuses on representing insurers nationwide in insurance coverage matters. He advises the nation’s largest insurers on coverage issues and best claims-handling practices, including with respect to first and third party claims and claims involving comprehensive general liability, property, automotive, non-trucking liability, excess workers’ compensation, employment practices liability, directors and officers, and environmental coverages. He also represents insurers in coverage litigation and arbitrations, including litigation involving claims of bad faith. Peter has lectured several times on insurance issues, giving presentations for the American Bar Association’s Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee, National Business Institute, and Dinsmore’s Annual CLE.

Presently, he serves as a co-chair of the Bad Faith Subcommittee for the American Bar Association’s Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee. Peter also serves on Dinsmore’s Professional Development Committee.

Credentials

Education

The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law (J.D., with honors, 2002)

  • Ohio State Law Journal, editor-in-chief

Wittenberg University (B.A., summa cum laude, 1999)

  • History
  • Phi Beta Kappa

Bar admissions

  • Ohio

Court admissions

  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
  • U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

Affiliations and memberships

  • American Bar Association
    • Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee
    • Bad Faith Subcommittee, co-chair
  • Columbus Bar Association
  • Center of Science and Industry (COSI)
    • Community Board member
  • Dublin AM Rotary Club
    • Board member
  • Friends of the Cincinnati Pops, past chair
  • Ohio State Bar Association
    • Leadership Academy, Class of 2010
  • Schoolhouse Symphony
    • Past Board of Directors
    • Past president of board
  • Fine Arts Fund, Business on Board Program Graduate (2007)
  • Ohio State Bar Foundation, fellow (2011)
  • Cincinnati Symphony Volunteer Association, past board member
  • Cincinnati Pops, Lollipops Concerts Committee, past co-chair

Distinctions

  • Ohio Rising Star®

Career Highlights
  • Counseled Leading ULT Freezer Company through Merger

    We counseled our client, Stirling Ultracold, an innovative developer and manufacturer of ultra-low temperature (ULT) freezers for life science and biopharma research, through its merger with BioLife Solutions, Inc., a developer focused on bioproduction devices used in cell and gene therapies. The all-stock mergers was in excess of $230 million.

    Stirling’s CEO saw the potential for increased demand for the company’s freezers during the COVID-19 pandemic as the freezers were a direct competitor to dry ice used in storing the COVID-19 vaccine. Merging with BioLife enabled Stirling to execute an aggressive strategic plan marketing and selling its freezers. Dinsmore served as the company’s general counsel since 2019, and our team of attorneys brought experience in mergers and acquisitions, labor, insurance, and life sciences, all of which was necessary to fully understand and address the company’s specialized needs. We counseled our client through the merger while simultaneously defusing challenges. Our team’s collective experience enabled Stirling’s executives to address the company’s short-term needs while also achieving its long-term goal.

    “The entire team at Dinsmore was, by far, the best engagement I have had in the 15-plus strategic transactions I have done throughout my career,” said previous Stirling Ultracold CEO Dusty Tenney, now COO and president at BioLife. “Their responsiveness, engagement, availability and deal leadership were extraordinary from LOI to closing.”

Publications
  • December 16, 2022

    Supreme Court of Ohio: No Insurance Coverage Provided for Lost Revenue Caused by COVID-19 Shutdowns

News
  • December 17, 2024

    35 Dinsmore Attorneys Named 2025 Ohio Super Lawyers and Rising Stars

  • December 29, 2023

    Ohio Super Lawyers Recognizes 30 Dinsmore Attorneys on 2024 List

  • December 29, 2022

    Ohio Super Lawyers Honors 36 Dinsmore Attorneys

Events
  • December 6, 2024

    Credits & More – Continuing Legal Education Seminar

  • March 4, 2022

    She’s Got a Ticket to Ride: Courts’ Shifting Interpretations of the Duty to Defend

  • March 4, 2021

    You’ve Got to Know When to Hold ‘Em . . . and When to Fold ‘Em: Examining an Insurer’s Duty to Settle

  • April 2, 2020

    COVID-19: Legal Issues for the Construction Industry

  • March 5, 2020

    Sharing Is Swearing: Challenges and Gaps in Insurance Coverage Where the Sharing Economy Meets Reality