Gura, Lloyd A.
Lloyd A. Gura has almost twenty years of experience in reinsurance, insurance, ERISA, environmental, tort, and healthcare litigation and arbitration. His practice includes complex insurance and reinsurance coverage disputes, subrogation, fraud, life and health claims, bad faith, property and casualty losses, directors and officers, errors and omissions, and all facets of professional liability claims, personal injury claims, premises liability, allocation disputes, insolvency issues, clergy molestation, and claims involving asbestos products and non-products.
Mr. Gura has published articles in Best's Review, Business Insurance, CPCU Claims Quarterly, and the Risk Management Newsletter concerning insurance and reinsurance issues. Mr. Gura lectures at seminars and conferences sponsored by, among others, ARIAS-US, BVR/Mealey's, American Conference Institute, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Reinsurance Association of America, and Lehman Brothers on reinsurance law and practice. He has tried numerous cases in state and federal courts throughout the United States and participated in more than one hundred reinsurance arbitrations. He is admitted to the New York and Connecticut bars and is a member of the New York County Lawyers' Association, where he is on the Committee on Insurance, and of the New York State Bar Association, where he is on the Health Law Committee.
Mr. Gura is a graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton and Brooklyn Law School.
MEMBERSHIPS/HONORS
- Nassau County Bar Association
- New York County Lawyers' Association, Committee on Insurance
- New York State Bar Association, Health Law Committee
- AIDA Reinsurance and Insurance Society (ARIAS-US)
- Finalist LexisNexis Insurer Attorney of the Year 2008
PUBLICATIONS
- Author, "Declaratory Judgment Expenses," Global Claims Consulting - Guy Carpenter 2008.
- Author, “Midland Insurance Company, in Liquidation: Twenty Years Later, Focus Turns to Reinsurers,” MCWG Newsletter, Winter 2006.
- Author, "Molestation Claims- Legislative and Judicial Developments Regarding the Statute of Limitations," Claims Quarterly, December 2005.
- Author, "Non-Product Asbestos Liability Claims: The New Phenomenon" The Risk Management Newsletter Vol. 25, Issue 2 (2004).
- Author, "Looming Asbestos Liabilities Raise Coverage Questions," Business Insurance, September 15, 2003.
- Author, "Compelling Resolution," Best’s Review, July, 2002.
- Author, "When is an Occurrence not an Occurrence - When it is a Breach of Contract," MCWG Newsletter, 1999.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- Lecturer, Reinsurance Magazine - Claims & Run-Off Seminar, London, England, December 9, 2009
- Presenter, "Reinsurance Seminar: London v. New York," MCWG/Reynolds Porter Chamberlain Joint Seminar, London, England, September 23, 2009
- Co-Chair, BVR Legal/Mealey's Conference - The Insurance Industry's Top 10 Risks and Opportunities
- Lecturer, ARIAS-US – Panel Discussion Concerning Ethical Problems in Reinsurance
- Lecturer, American Conference Institute – Reinsurance and Non Product Asbestos Coverage Issues
- Lecturer, American Conference Institute – Access to Records Clauses - Use and Abuse
- Lecturer, American Conference Institute – Organizational Meetings
- Lecturer, Association of the Bar of the City of New York – Recent Developments in Reinsurance Law
- Lecturer, Reinsurance Association of America – Recent Developments in Follow the Fortunes and Follow the Settlements and their Impact on Allocation
- Lecturer, Reinsurance Association of America – Natural Catastrophes and Reinsurance
- Lecturer, American Conference Institute – Apportioning Losses – Allocating and Aggregating Complex Claims
- Lecturer, Lehman Brothers Global Reinsurance Conference – Reinsurance Disputes in the Global Marketplace
- Lecturer, Mealey's - Reinsurance 101
- Lecturer, Marcus Evans – Reinsurance Case Studies
ADMISSIONS
New York
Connecticut
First, Second, Third and Tenth Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal
EDUCATION
B.A., State University of New York, Binghamton, 1987
J.D., Brooklyn Law School, 1990
