Weinstein, Jeffrey S.

Jeffrey S. Weinstein has over twenty years of experience in insurance, reinsurance, commercial, tort, contract, corporate, and multi-district litigations and arbitrations. His practice is concentrated in domestic and international insurance coverage disputes involving first-party property, pollution, and employers' liability coverages, and coverage issues arising from mass disasters (e.g., 9/11, 2005 hurricanes).  Mr. Weinstein also assists clients in policy drafting, claims handling, and litigation in connection with worldwide property and specialty coverages, such as "Kidnap, Ransom, Extortion," "Confiscation, Expropriation, Nationalization," "Malicious Product Tampering," "Product Recall," "Contaminated Products," "Property, Terrorism, Sabotage," and various "War Risks". He has litigated and handled appeals in state and federal courts throughout the United States and Puerto Rico and has participated in litigations involving several European countries.

Mr. Weinstein has lectured throughout the United States and in the U.K. on first-party coverage issues involving environmental damages, mold, and hurricane claims, and he has written for Best's Review, Mealey's Litigation Reports (Insurance), Mealey's Emerging Insurance Disputes, The National Law Journal, and the Risk Management Newsletter. In 2006, Mr. Weinstein was a panelist at the Matson, Driscoll & Damico Annual Business Interruption Roundtable Panel Discussion in London.  He is admitted to the New York and New Jersey State and Federal bars, the District Court of Wisconsin and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second and Third Circuits, and he is a member of the New York County Lawyers' Association.

Mr. Weinstein is a graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton and Boston University School of Law (cum laude). 

 MEMBERSHIPS/HONORS

• New York County Lawyers' Association
• Recognized in Super Lawyers - Insurance Coverage
• Recognized in Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition - Insurance Coverage

PUBLICATIONS

• Co-Author, "Swine Flu - Implications for First-Party and Workers' Compensation Insurance," Claims Quorum - CPCU Society Claims Interest Group, Volume 28, Number 2, April 2010.
• Co-Author, "Innocence Lost and Found: Determining Recovery for Co-Insured," New York Law Journal, March 1, 2010.
• Co-Author, "Contingent Business Interruption - The 'Silent' Coverage," Mealey's Litigation Report: Catastrophic Loss, Vol. 4, #11, August 2009.
• Author, “Food Products Recall Insurance:  It May Be Newsworthy, But Is It Covered?”, Mealey’s Emerging Insurance Disputes, June, 2008.
• Co-author, “Looking Back, Looking Forward: How to Measure Business Interruption Losses,” Mealey’s Business Interruption, December, 2002.
• Co-author, “Mold and Sick Building Syndrome,” White Paper, 2001.
• Co-author, “Business Interruption,” Best’s Review, December, 2002.
• Author, “Defamation in Cyberspace,” Mealey’s Insurance.
• Author, “Does Defamation on Web Create Liability for ISPs?”, The National Law Journal, August 20, 2001.
• Co-author, “Insurance Risks in the Computer Age,” White Paper, 2000.
• Co-author, “Y2K and Insurance Coverage” A Comprehensive Review,” White Paper, 1999.
  Author, “Y2K: A First-Party Perspective,” Mealey’s Litigation Report, March 9, 1999.
• Author, “Great (or Reasonable) Expectations,” Best’s Review, May, 1990.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• Lecturer, " Food Product Recall Insurance: It May be Newsworthy, but is It Covered?," Top 10 Insurance Issues Conference, BVR Legal/Mealey's Conferences, December 2008.
• Panelist:  Matson Driscoll & Damico Annual Business Interruption Roundtable Panel Discussion, London, June, 2006.
• Lecturer, "Mealey's Mold Insurance Litigation Conference," September, 2002.
• Lecturer, First-party coverage of environmental damages and mold claims," 2001-2002.

ADMISSIONS
New York, 1986
New Jersey (State and District Courts), 1986
U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts, New York, 1988
Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1990
Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 2001
U.S. District Court, Eastern District, Wisconsin, 2002

EDUCATION
B.A., State University of New York at Binghamton, 1983
J.D., cum laude, Boston University School of Law, 1986