Stuart Cotton

Stuart Cotton is a member of the firm's Executive Committee. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown University Law School, he has over thirty years of experience in general commercial, tort, and insurance coverage litigation and arbitration involving, among other areas, property damage (including environmental and contamination loss), business interruption, boiler and machinery, residual value and other financial guaranty, and reinsurance. Mr. Cotton has litigated in state and federal courts in various jurisdictions throughout the United States on behalf of U.S. and overseas insurers, reinsurers, managing agents, and brokers and intermediaries, as well as Underwriters at Lloyd's. He has lectured and written articles on business interruption coverage problems, punitive damages, the effect of non-disclosure and misrepresentation on the validity of reinsurance treaty coverages, cedant/reinsurer obligations under typical contract wordings, litigation problems involving letters of credit, residual value, coverage for environmental impairment and contamination clean-up costs, claims arising from insurance company inspection activities, and other topics. Mr. Cotton's articles have appeared in Best's Review , Business Insurance , The Review (London) , The Journal of Insurance Coverage , and ReActions . He is also the co-author with Andrew Maneval of the chapter on Financial Guaranty Insurance contained in Business Insurance Law and Practice Guide (Matthew Bender, 1989). He has lectured on various insurance and reinsurance-related topics at Mealey's seminars, the Defense Research Institute, The Practising Law Institute and other organizations. Mr. Cotton is a member of the New York County Lawyers' Association and the Association of English and American Lawyers.