{"id":2455,"date":"2026-03-03T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mokblaw.com\/?p=2455"},"modified":"2026-07-03T20:35:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:35:05","slug":"level-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mokblaw.com\/?p=2455","title":{"rendered":"LEVEL UP!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LEVEL UP!!! O\u2019Connor &amp; Battle welcomes <a href=\"https:\/\/mokblaw.com\/?page_id=2345\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2345\">Mark Ruda <\/a>as the newest partner in the firm. Mark is a trial attorney with decades of experience trying myriad cases across various practice areas. His practice focuses on personal injury defense, civil litigation, first party property litigation, insurance fraud, insurance coverage, professional malpractice and appellate law. Mark is widely recognized for his deep and vast expertise collaborating with insurance carriers with respect to general liability, SIU as well as arson matters. His trial experience is immeasurable, securing defense verdicts, favorable verdicts, settlements, summary judgments for the defense and dismissals for various insurers throughout his career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mark is a frequent speaker on a variety of topics with certain professional organizations, including the International Association of Special Investigation Units (IASIU), PROPERTY LOSS RESEARCH BUREAU (PLRB), Insurance Committee on Arson Control (ICAC), and individual insurance carriers. For more information about Mark, click here. https:\/\/lnkd.in\/g-c-76VW<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Managing Partner Kenneth Battle noted, \u201cMark is a seasoned trial warrior, and we are extremely excited to have him join our team!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEVEL UP!!! O\u2019Connor &amp; Battle welcomes Mark Ruda as the newest partner in the firm. Mark is a trial attorney with decades of experience trying myriad cases across various practice areas. His practice focuses on personal injury defense, civil litigation, first party property litigation, insurance fraud, insurance coverage, professional malpractice and appellate law. Mark is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-2455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-firm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mokblaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mokblaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mokblaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mokblaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mokblaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mokblaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2456,"href":"https:\/\/mokblaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions\/2456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mokblaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mokblaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mokblaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mokblaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}