Gregory M. Eaton

Shareholder/Director
Senior Vice President

106 Main Street
Littleton, New Hampshire 03561
Phone: (603) 444-4008
Fax: (603) 444-6040
Email: geaton@primmer.com

Greg Eaton has been a trial attorney since 1993. His practice includes the state and federal courts of Vermont and New Hampshire, with a focus on insurance coverage and bad faith litigation, personal injury, commercial and employment litigation. Greg serves as a court-appointed mediator for the New Hampshire Superior Court, and is the past president of the Grafton County Bar Association. He has served on the New Hampshire Bar Association Committee on Professionalism and on the Board of Governors of the New Hampshire Bar Association. Greg has lectured regularly on issues of insurance coverage, insurance claims handling and professional ethics and responsibility.

Areas of Practice:

• Civil Litigation
• Insurance Coverage
• Claims Handling and Bad Faith Litigation
• Commercial Litigation
• Ethics and Professional Liability
• Employment Litigation

Bar Admissions:

• Vermont
• New Hampshire
• Massachusetts

Court Admissions:

• U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont
• U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Education:

• Vermont Law School, 1993 (J.D.) Honors: summa cum laude
• Head Notes Editor, Vermont Law Review, 1992-1993
• University of Massachusetts, 1990 (M.A.)
• Boston College, 1987 (B.A.) magna cum laude

Representative Cases:

• Doe v. Newbury Bible Church, 509 F.3d 69 (2d. Cir. 2007)
• Doe v. Newbury Bible Church, 182 Vt. 174, 933 A.2d 196 (Vt. 2007)
• Peerless Insurance v. Vermont Mutual Insurance Company, 151 N.H. 71, 849 A.2d 100 (N.H. 2004)
• Vautour v. Bodymasters Sports Industries, 147 N.H. 150, 784 A.2d 1178 (N.H. 2001)
• Lebroke v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Ins. Co., 146 N.H. 249, 769 A.2d 39 (N.H. 2001)
• Langlois v. Pomerleau, 143 N.H. 456, 726 A.2d 1285 (N.H. 1999)

Classes/Seminars/Speaking Engagements:

• Presented on mediation strategy and negotiating tactics to Vermont Claims Association, Waterbury, Vermont, June 15, 2011
• Gary Franklin, Gary Karnedy and Greg Eaton were presenters at the Insurance Coverage Litigation Seminar with National Business Insurance (NBI) in Burlington Vermont, March 25, 2009

Professional Associations and Memberships:

• Vermont Bar Association
• New Hampshire Bar Association

Pro bono activities:

• Trustee, Tenney Memorial Library, Newbury, Vermont
• Board Member, Youth Safety Council of Vermont