Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass Announces Two New Partners
New York, NY, December 2, 2008 — Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass is pleased to announce that Amy J. Kallal and Eric J. Voigt have become members of the firm.
Ms. Kallal’s practice focuses on all aspects of reinsurance arbitration and litigation and includes disputes relating to asbestos, environmental, and clergy sexual misconduct claims, as well as other complex reinsurance coverage issues. Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Kallal worked as an attorney at the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department. She is a member of the American Bar Association and is admitted to the New York bar.
Ms Kallal is a graduate of Syracuse University College of Law (cum laude) and Michigan State University (cum laude). At Syracuse, she was an editor of the Journal of Legislation and Policy; she also attended the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and received a Masters Degree in Public Administration.
Mr. Voigt’s practice includes all aspects of litigation and arbitration of complex insurance and reinsurance disputes involving commercial property/casualty insurance; life, accident and health insurance and reinsurance; long term care reinsurance; workers’ compensation carve out business; and professional liability insurance. He also advises clients on a wide variety of coverage issues pertaining to commercial liability insurance including coverage for product liability and pollution claims as well as professional and contractual liability matters.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Voigt spent several years in the insurance industry as counsel in the environmental and mass tort divisions of two international insurance companies. He also worked for a New Jersey law firm where he concentrated in insurance-related coverage disputes involving environmental, toxic tort, and products liability issues.
Mr. Voigt is a graduate of Cook College at Rutgers University (cum laude) and Vermont Law School, where he received a Master of Studies in Environmental Law (cum laude) in addition to his law degree. He is a member of the New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts bars.
Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass is an internationally recognized law firm practicing insurance, reinsurance, general commercial litigation and business, securities and commodities law. Founded in 1933, Mound Cotton is based in New York City, with additional offices in Newark, Ft. Lauderdale, Garden City, Long Island and San Francisco. The firm has almost 100 lawyers.
