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November 21, 2024
Indian Harbor Insurance Company v. Daikin America, Inc., Index No. 032586/2024 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. Rockland Cty. Nov. 11, 2024). Mound Cotton won summary judgment in New York State Supreme Court on behalf of its client, Indian Harbor Insurance Company, in a...
Amy Kallal Will Be A Panelist at ARIAS: “Emerging Claims & Recent Developments On High Stakes Claims”
October 26, 2024
Amy Kallal will be a panelist on ARIAS•US’ Fall Conference’s “Emerging Claims & Recent Developments On High Stakes Claims” session on November 14, 2024. Mound Cotton is proud to be a sponsor of the Conference. Geared towards...
Tom Breen Quoted in Law360 Insurance Authority
October 25, 2024
Partner Tom Breen was quoted in Law360 Insurance Authority, “Mixed Opioid Suit Rulings Complicate Disputes for Coverage” by Abraham Gross discussing recent insurance coverage litigation outcomes. Read the full article here (subscription...
JOIN US AT OUR ANNUAL NYC REINSURANCE CONFERENCE – SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
September 16, 2024
Join us for the following panels and RSVP to attend:communications@moundcotton.com Lloyd Gura: Conference Chair Matthew Lasky: Hot Topics: Managing General Agents Guyon Knight: Reinsuring PFAS: Emerging Issues in the Next, Next Asbestos Kristen Kish:...
Mound Cotton Welcomes Partner Tiffany J. Rothenberg to the Firm’s Fort Lauderdale Office
September 4, 2024
Mound Cotton, a leading law firm representing insurance companies, announced today that Tiffany J. Rothenberg has joined the firm’s Fort Lauderdale office. She represents commercial property insurance carriers in complex coverage disputes and bad faith...
Mound Cotton Welcomes Partner Jason M. Chodos to the Firm’s Fort Lauderdale Office
September 4, 2024
Mound Cotton, a leading law firm representing insurance companies, announced today that Jason M. Chodos has joined its Florida office. An experienced litigator, Jason represents the interests of insurers in first-party property insurance coverage...
Law360 Published Barry Temkin and Kate DiGeronimo’s Article, “Assessing Whether Jarkesy May Limit FINRA Prosecutions”
August 31, 2024
Law360 published “Assessing Whether Jarkesy May Limit FINRA Prosecutions” , written by partners Barry Temkin and Kate DiGeronimo, on August 30, 2024. You can read the article here (subscription required), or click on the link below.
New Hampshire v. Scottsdale
August 27, 2024
In this federal court litigation a facultative reinsurer denied a claim under a first party property policy based on an alleged oral settlement agreement reached in 2007, eleven years before the original claim was settled and only a short time after...
Amy Kallal will be a copanelist on “Fill In The Blanks: Considerations For Proving the Terms of Missing Contracts” – ARIAS webinar
August 5, 2024
Amy Kallal will discuss reinsurance contract recovery on ARIAS•U.S.’ webinar, “Fill In The Blanks: Considerations For Proving the Terms of Missing Contracts” on September 18 with co-panelists Randi Ellias from Aon and Jim Fitzgerald...
MOUND COTTON CLIENT WINS APPEAL OVER “CONTAMINATION” EXCLUSION
July 25, 2024
Illinois Appellate Court Sides with Mound Cotton’s Client on “Contamination” Exclusion in COVID-19 Coverage Action Mound Cotton’s client won an appeal in a COVID-19 coverage action involving a claim for “Tenants Prohibited...
THE CALM BEFORE THE SOLAR STORM
July 9, 2024
This article will be published in the August 2024 issue of International Institute of Loss Adjusters (IILA)’s The International Monitor. This July 9, 2024 update was written with the invaluable follow up research and assistance of Mariah Patuel,...
Ray Mastrangelo to Speak at RAA Re Contracts
July 5, 2024
Ray Mastrangelo will discuss Dispute Resolution Clauses: Arbitration, Mediation and Litigation at RAA Re Contracts: The Art of Designing Reinsurance Contracts and Programs on July 23 in New York City. This session will review various dispute resolution...
Amy Kallal, Pamela Minetto To Speak at AIRROC Summer Membership Meeting
July 3, 2024
Amy Kallal and Pamela Minetto will speak on the panel, Abuse Claims: The Current Landscape, during AIRROC’s Summer Membership Meeting in New York City on July 16-17. Panelists will discuss issues that often arise with abuse claims such as lost...
Tom Breen Discussed D&O Policies with Law360 Insurance Authority
July 3, 2024
Partner Thomas Breen was quoted in “High Court’s Regulatory Rulings Unsettle Coverage Risks” in Law360 on July 3, 2024, discussing insurance implications of recent Supreme Court rulings in Jarkesy and Loper Bright, seeking to limit the...
Mound Cotton Recognized in Chambers USA 2024; Lloyd Gura Ranked
June 6, 2024
NEW YORK — Mound Cotton is pleased to announce that the firm has been ranked in Chambers’ USA 2024 Guide, New York, Band 4 in the Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Insurer category. Partner Lloyd Gura is ranked as a leading lawyer in Band 4. The...
Philip Silverberg A Panelist at IADC’s 2024 Professional Liability Roundtable: Cyber Liability Insurance
May 30, 2024
Philip SIlverberg was a panelist on “What’s Old is New Again: Cyber Liability Insurance” at IADC’s 2024 Professional Liability Roundtable in Chicago on May 30. This panel will discuss the current state of risk, lessons learned, and the...
Lorraine Sylvester Spoke to Law360 Healthcare Authority
May 15, 2024
Lorraine Sylvester, who advises insurers on healthcare providers, was quoted in “Huge Payouts Pressure Hospitals To Address Doc Sex Abuse” in Law360 on May 14, 2024. “She said the liability standards for hospitals remain the same,...
New York Law Journal: Are SEC and FINRA Administrative Hearings Unconstitutional?
May 9, 2024
Partner Barry Temkin wrote “Are SEC and FINRA Administrative Hearings Unconstitutional?” which the New York Law Journal published on May 9, 2024. Click below to read the full article.
Tom Breen Quoted in Law360
March 15, 2024
Tom Breen was quoted in Law360 in the article, “Towers Watson Ruling Energizes Bump Up Supporters, Critics,” on March 14, discussing a Virginia federal court’s ruling that insurers did not have to cover shareholder suit settlements,...
Michael Goldstein on Insurance Law Everywhere – Bite-Sized Business Law Podcast
March 12, 2024
Michael Goldstein was a guest on the Bite-Sized Business Law podcast, discussing insurance law and how it touches every area of our lives, the climate and digital risks faced by the industry, and the myriad of career paths in insurance law. See more...
Michael Goldstein To Teach Law and Business of Insurance at Fordham Law School
March 4, 2024
Senior Counsel Michael Goldstein will join the faculty of Fordham Law School’s Corporate Law Center as an Adjunct Professor during the Fall 2024 semester. His Law and Business of Insurance class will provide an introduction to the landscape, i.e., the...
ARIAS-US Quarterly: Intertwined Worlds of Insurance, Reinsurance, and the Law in the U.S. and U.K.
March 1, 2024
This article was published in ARIAS-US Quarterly, Q1 2024. In late May 2023, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued a detailed and complex decision that demonstrates in unusually lucid fashion that the interconnected worlds of U.S. and U.K....
PowerCon 2024 Panel: Navigating Complex Mining Losses
February 6, 2024
Samuel Weiss will be on the panel, “Navigating Complex Mining Losses” at PowerCon Energy and Power Conference 2024 on April 3. Since 2011, PowerCon delivers interactive educational and analytical content regarding the associated risks for...
IACP: The Impact of Micra Modernization on California: Healthcare Liability Costs
December 7, 2023
This article was published in IACP (International Association of Claim Professionals) Declarations 2022-2023 Year in Review, pp.39-43. You can see the article, attached, or download the article here: https://lnkd.in/g98GB-rF On May 23, 2022, California...
New York Law Journal: Surfside’s Settlement and the Legislative Response
May 22, 2023
The Surfside collapse and its $1.2 billion class action settlement in 2021 created a pivotal moment for Florida insurance regulations in property losses. Partner Lloyd Gura dives into the legislative response of the state and its efforts to curb the...
Mound Cotton Welcomes Partner Karl A. Schulz
May 3, 2023
HOUSTON — Mound Cotton, a leading law firm representing insurance companies, announced today that Karl Schulz joined the firm’s Houston office. An experienced litigator, he represents insurance companies in first party property insurance claims. “We are...
Mound Cotton Welcomes Guyon Knight As Partner, Adam Alster As Special Counsel
April 4, 2023
NEW YORK, FLORHAM PARK — Mound Cotton, a leading law firm representing insurance companies, announced today that Guyon Knight joined the New York office as a partner. Guyon represents insurers and reinsurers in high-stakes coverage and bad faith...
MOUND COTTON WELCOMES THREE NEW PARTNERS AND ONE SPECIAL COUNSEL
January 13, 2023
NEW YORK — Effective January 1, 2023, Mound Cotton promoted Andrea Fort, Pamela Minetto, and Craig Rygiel, to Partner and Kristen Kish to Special Counsel. “We congratulate and celebrate Andrea, Pam, Craig, and Kristen on their well-deserved success,”...
Join Us at our Annual NYC Reinsurance Conference
September 28, 2022
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Mound Cotton Hires New Senior Counsel Lyndy Stewart
August 17, 2022
CALIFORNIA — Mound Cotton, a leading law firm representing insurance companies, announced today that Lyndy Stewart joined the firm as a senior counsel. As an insurance litigator, her practice focuses on bad faith litigation and insurance coverage...
Florida Judge Dismisses COVID-19 Damage Claims – Law360
August 12, 2022
No Direct Physical Loss or Damage / COVID-19
Florida Circuit Judge Bradley G. Harper awarded Mound Cotton’s client a partial dismissal of property damage claims made by an international real estate investment company. Plaintiff alleged that the presence of COVID-19 physically damaged property by...
Wendy Stein Fulton Discusses ‘Avoiding Bad Faith Bear Traps’ at Florida Insurance Network Symposium (FINS) 2022
August 12, 2022
Partner Wendy Stein Fulton presented “Keeping the Faith: Detecting and Avoiding Bad Faith Bear Traps” at FINS 2022 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on August 12. She taught participants how to handle and respond to a plaintiff’s demand to...
NJ Judge Dismisses COVID-19 Suit – No Physical Loss or Damage
June 30, 2022
No Physical Loss or Damage
New Jersey Superior Court Judge Steven Polansky awarded a full dismissal of COVID-19 business interruption claims. The policyholder failed to show that the presence of COVID-19 caused physical loss or damage required to qualify for coverage. “The...
New Partner Lorraine C. Sylvester Brings A New Practice, Healthcare Professional Liability, to Mound Cotton
March 28, 2022
Her team includes Special Counsel Colleen Martindale and two associates
NEW YORK — Mound Cotton, a leading law firm representing insurance companies, announced today that Lorraine Sylvester, a healthcare professional liability attorney, joined the firm as a partner. She is joined by Special Counsel Colleen Martindale, and...
Q&A: Impact of Remote Proceedings on International Arbitrations – Mealey’s
January 5, 2022
This Q&A was published in the December 2021 issues of Mealey’s International Arbitration Report and Mealey’s Coronavirus Law Report. Senior Counsel Michael H. Goldstein was on a Q&A panel for Mealey’s International Arbitration Report...
Mound Cotton Promotes Jodi Tesser, Stephanie Tippit, and Jared Markowitz To Partner
January 5, 2022
NEW YORK — Mound Cotton announced today that they have elevated three attorneys to partner. Both Jodi Tesser and Jared Markowitz work out of the New York office, and Stephanie Tippit works from the Texas office. “We are honored to welcome Jodi,...
Mound Cotton’s Insurance Practice in Florida Expanded With Commercial Litigator Wendy Stein Fulton
September 9, 2021
FORT LAUDERDALE — Mound Cotton is expanding its Florida office with the addition of partner Wendy Stein Fulton, a seasoned commercial litigator with experience representing clients in complex insurance coverage, commercial general liability,...
Two New Special Counsel Join Mound Cotton, Expanding the Firm’s Insurance and Commercial Litigation Practices
May 24, 2021
Partner Kathleen DeLaney and Special Counsel Benjamin R. Messing joined earlier this year, as well as two new associates, expanding the firm’s footprint
This announcement appeared in PC360: People on the Move. NEW YORK — Mound Cotton today announced that two new Special Counsel are joining the firm, Vanessa Durante in the Houston office and Ethan Friedman in the Emeryville office. Ms. Durante was...
In Memoriam: Daniel Markewich 1940-2017
February 14, 2017
The lawyers of Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass LLP mourn the loss of our brilliant and esteemed colleague, Daniel Markewich, who died on January 29 at the age of 76. Mr. Markewich passed peacefully, surrounded by family, after a long fight with...