partner

Robert S. Goodman is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School.  Mr. Goodman has over thirty years of experience in litigation including general commercial, corporate and partnership disputes, securities, employment discrimination, real estate, trademark infringement and unfair competition at both the trial and appellate levels and in arbitration.

Mr. Goodman is admitted to practice in the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Third and Federal Circuits; U.S. District Courts, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; and the New York State Courts.  Mr. Goodman is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

Mr. Goodman’s representative clients have included:  Target Corporation, First Union National Bank, First New York Bank for Business, Concord Transportation, Inc., Webcraft, Scientiae LLC, and Lux Cashmere.

Mr. Goodman’s reported decisions have included:  Healthworld Corp. v. Gottlieb, Scientiae LLC, et al., 12 A.D.3d 278, 786 N.Y.S.2d 8 (1st Dep’t 2004); A. Brod, et al. v. Worldwide Dreams LLC, 2004 WL 2535087 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Co. 2004); A. Brod, et al. v. Worldwide Dreams LLC, 2004 WL 1563352 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Co. 2004); Security Ins. Co. of Hartford v. Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. and Concord Trans. Inc., 314 F. Supp. 2d 201 (S.D.N.Y. 2003); Security Ins. Co. of Hartford v. Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. and Concord Trans. Inc., 2003 WL 22004895 (S.D.N.Y. 2003), judgment vacated, 391 F.3d 77 (2d Cir. 2004); First Union Nat’l Bank v. A.G. Edwards, 262 A.D.2d 106, 691 N.Y.S.2d 491 (1st Dep’t 1999); Sirota v. Welbilt Appliance, Inc. 840 F. Supp. 11 (E.D.N.Y. 1994).
 

Eric J. 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. He is a member of the New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts bars.

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.

ADMISSIONS
New York
New Jersey
Massachusetts

EDUCATION
B.S., cum laude, Rutgers University, Cook College, 1991
J.D., Vermont Law School, 1994
M.S.E.L. (Master of Studies in Environmental Law), cum laude, Vermont Law School, 1994

Bernadette Kelly Kirwin is a partner with primary responsibility for litigating complex insurance coverage disputes.  Bernadette has extensive experience litigating first-party property coverage actions involving catastrophic losses such as those stemming from Hurricane Katrina and large-scale construction accidents.  Ms. Kirwin's experience also includes litigation of issues specific to builder's risk and business interruption coverages.  Bernadette also has litigated complex third-party liability coverage matters involving hazardous products. 

Bernadette was instrumental in establishing Mound Cotton's annual women's networking event known as "An Evening Dedicated to Networking For Women." This invitation-only event provides an interactive forum for insurance and reinsurance professional women.  If you are interested in attending, please contact Bernadette at bkirwin@moundcotton.com.

Bernadette is also an active member of the National Association of Insurance Women ("NAIW"), the Association for Professional Insurance Women ("APIW"), and the New York County Lawyers' Association.

Bernadette earned her undergraduate degree from Hunter College while employed as a paralegal for the General Counsel's Office of R. H. Macy & Co., Inc., and her law degree from New York Law School while employed as a Manager for Legal Services for Saks Fifth Avenue.

Bernadette is admitted to the New York bar and to the United States Districts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. She has also appeared pro hac vice in several other states, including Louisiana, New Jersey (DNJ), Washington, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Arizona.
 

MEMBERSHIPS/HONORS

• National Association of Insurance Women ("NAIW")
• Association of Professional Insurance Women ("APIW")
• New York County Lawyers' Association

ADMISSIONS
New York
United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
United States District Court, Southern District of New York

EDUCATION
B.A., Hunter College, 1995
J.D., New York Law School, 2000

Amy J. 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. Her 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.

ADMISSIONS
New York

EDUCATION
B.A., Michigan State University (cum laude), 1992
M.A., Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, 1997
J.D., Syracuse University College of Law (cum laude), 1997
 

William D. Wilson has over eighteen years of experience in all aspects of commercial litigation. He is the resident partner in the firm's New Jersey office. His practice includes insurance defense, insurance coverage disputes, subrogation, contract disputes, products liability, employer liability, premises liability, and general negligence. Mr. Wilson has litigated cases in state and federal courts throughout the United States. He has co-authored articles in National Underwriter, The John Liner Review, and The Federation of Regulatory Counsel Newsletter. Mr. Wilson is admitted to the New Jersey, New York and Florida bars, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second, Third, and Federal Circuits, the United States Court of Claims, and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the Northern, Eastern, Southern, and Western Districts of New York.  He is also a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association.

Mr. Wilson is a graduate of New Jersey Institute of Technology (magna cum laude) and St. John's University School of Law, where he served as an editor of the St. John's Law Review. Mr. Wilson has an undergraduate degree in computer science and worked as a tool and die maker for several years before college.

MEMBERSHIPS/HONORS
New Jersey State Bar Association

PUBLICATIONS

• Co-Author, “The Tab For Litigating Results: The enforceability of contractual indemnity
  clauses,” New Jersey Law Journal, June 8, 2009.
• Co-author of articles that have appeared in The John Liner Review, and The Federation of Regulatory Counsel Newsletter.
• Author, "Off-Premises Defense Washed Up?," National Underwriter, May 30, 2005.
• Editor, St. John's Law Review.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• Speaker, "Catastrophic Hurricane Claims," Manhattan Chapter of the CPCU Society, April 2006.
• Speaker, "Complexities of Business Interruption Losses," PCS Catastrophe Conference, April 2006.
• Speaker, "Expert Class On Business Interruption and Contingent Business Interruption Claims," American Conference Institute Catastrophic Event Insurance Claims Conference, March 2006.
• Speaker, "Establishing Coverage Limitations and Determining Loss on Business Interruption and Contingent Business Interruption Claims," American Conference Institute Catastrophic Event Insurance Claims Conference, March 2006.
• Co-Chairman and Speaker, Mealey's Fundamentals of Insurance Conference, February 2006.

ADMISSIONS
New Jersey, 1991
New York, 1992
Florida, 2009
United States Supreme Court, 2004
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1997
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 1996
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 2006
United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, 2004
United States Court of Appeals, Armed Forces, 2004
United States Court of Federal Claims, 2005
United States District Court, District of New Jersey, 1991
United States District Court, Northern District of New York, 1993
United States District Court, Eastern District of New York, 1992
United States District Court, Southern District of New York, 1992
United States District Court, Western District of New York, 1993  

EDUCATION
B.S., magna cum laude, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1988
J.D., St. John's University School of Law, 1991

Robert E. Wilder has more than twenty-five years of experience litigating and arbitrating complex reinsurance, insurance, and general commercial matters.  His practice focuses on property-casualty and accident and health reinsurance disputes in the U.S. and London Markets, including matters concerning allocation, aggregation, misrepresentation, reinsurance spirals, MGA arrangements, pools, insolvency, and finite reinsurance.  He has appeared before numerous arbitration panels and state and federal courts throughout the United States.  Mr. Wilder also counsels clients on reinsurance issues.  He lectures frequently and has published articles on reinsurance and related topics.  Mr. Wilder is a Board Member of HarrisMartin’s Reinsurance Report and co-editor of the firm’s newsletter Reinsurance Law Update.  

Mr. Wilder is a graduate of Binghamton University and New York Law School (magna cum laude).  Prior to joining the firm, he practiced law at Healy & Baillie, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, and Lord Day & Lord, Barrett Smith.  Mr. Wilder is admitted to the New York bar and is a member of the American Bar Association.

PUBLICATIONS

• Wasa v. Lexington: The War Between England and the American Colonies Has Officially Ended, Premier Vol. 1. No.1, Harris Martin's Reinsurance Report 6 (2008) (co-authored with Sarah E. Rouse)
• Follow the Settlements: Under What Circumstances is it Applicable to Allocation and Aggregation Determinations?, 18-3 Mealey's Litig. Rep. Reinsurance 14 (June 1, 2007)
• Tripartite Reinsurance Arbitration: The Case for a Neutral Panel, 16 ALTERNATIVES 137 (CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution) (1998) (reprinted in Spring 1999 Newsletter of the ABA Excess, Surplus Lines & Reinsurance Committee)
• Aggregation and Allocation of Losses Under Casualty Excess of Loss Reinsurance Agreements: Must a Reinsurer “Follow the Fortunes", JOURNAL OF REINSURANCE, Fall 1997
• Reinsurance – Third Circuit Limits Duty of Good Faith, 145 N.J.L.J. 584 (1996)
• The "Event" Debate in Asbestos-Related Excess of Loss Reinsurance Disputes, 31 TORT & INS. L.J. 687 (1996) (co-authored with Michael J. Murphy)

MEMBERSHIPS
American Bar Association

ADMITTED TO PRACTICE
New York, 1981
U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1981 

EDUCATION
B.A., State University of New York at Binghamton, 1975
J.D., magna cum laude, New York Law School, 1980

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, "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

PRACTICE AREAS
Defense counsel in numerous complex matters, including construction, toxic tort, mass tort, class action, commercial, corporate dissolution, products liability, environmental, personal injury, subrogation, business interruption, long term care, insurance, and reinsurance.

Mr. Weber has briefed and argued many complex motions for his clients. He has also conducted extensive direct and cross-examinations of witnesses at deposition and hearing and been involved in many arbitrations, mediations, trials, and appeals in state and federal courts, as well as before arbitration and mediation panels.

Mr. Weber has represented major companies in construction, project managements, engineering, financial services, insurance and reinsurance. He has also handled commercial litigation involving the theft of intellectual property, misappropriation of trade secrets, and bankruptcy.

Mr. Weber has also counseled professional engineers, construction and project managers regarding permissible business structures for the provision of "design-build" services in New York and various New England States. He has advised multi-national entities regarding the corporate dissolution of US operations and related corporate and litigation management strategies. Mr. Weber has also been integrally involved in lobbying federal and state representatives with respect to complex and controversial legislation on behalf of major corporate clients.

Before joining the firm, Mr. Weber was with Eastman Kodak Company for nearly a decade, where he held various marketing, training, and management positions in Kodak's Office Imaging Group.

ARTICLES, PRESENTATIONS
New Standard for Punitive Damages Awards: Exxon Shipping Co. v. BakerBuilding Catastrophe Litigation: Considerations for Construction and Design Professionals, Building Owners, Landlord's, and Tenants-To Whom is a Duty Owed, and From Whom can Recovery be Had?
A Future for Design-Build in New York?
Orbit of Duty-Limitations and Implications in Catastrophic Property Losses
Possible Exit Strategies for the Asbestos Mass Tort Mess
Mold and "Sick Building Syndrome" An Overview-Revisited for Construction, Design Professionals
E-Discovery Changes To The Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure; Obligations and Requirements Concerning Electronically Stored Information
Who Bears The Costs Of Production Of Electronically Stored Information?
No Delay Here; New York Governor Quickly Ratifies New Legislation to Ease the Strain on Late-Notifying Insured
Allstate Insurance Company v. American Home Assurance Company, New York's Appellate Division, First Department Finds There Are Limited to a Reinsurer's Obligation to Follow the Fortunes of a Cedent's Post-Settlement Allocation
Recent Developments in Reinsurance Law

ADMISSIONS
New York, 1993
New Jersey, 1993

COURT ADMISSIONS
U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
New York State Courts
U.S. District Courts for the District Of New Jersey
New Jersey State Courts
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Supreme Court of the United States

EDUCATION
B.A., cum laude, Pace University, 1984
J.D., Fordham University School of Law, 1992
Editor, Fordham Entertainment, Media & Intellectual Property Law Journal

For more than twenty years, Mr. Veach has concentrated his practice on reinsurance and insurance regulation, litigation, and arbitration. He began his legal career with Kreindler & Kreindler, an aviation products-liability firm located in New York City,  and then joined the New York County District Attorney's Office.   He served under Robert M. Morgenthau in the Office's Appeals Bureau where he argued appeals in both intermediate appellate courts and the New York Court of Appeals.  He later moved to a trial bureau and tried many felony and homicide cases.

In 1983, Mr. Veach joined what was then Rein, Mound & Cotton. He has since handled a variety of insurance and reinsurance disputes arising from property, general liability, surety, political risk, health, errors and omissions policies, and various reinsurance arrangements that reinsured these lines of business.  For the past fifteen years, he has concentrated his practice on insurance and reinsurance regulation and arbitration, as well as insolvency-related matters affecting primary carriers and their reinsurers.  He is a certified ARIAS-U.S. arbitrator.  

Mr. Veach has represented reinsurance intermediaries and brokers.  He has tried disputes between intermediaries over reinsurance brokerage.  He represented a state insurance department in its efforts to recover commissions and brokerage from agents and brokers of an insolvent insurer. He represented other state insurance department in successfully recovering reinsurance balances due an insolvent estate.  He has also advised insurers and reinsurers on licensing issues concerning reinsurance intermediaries, brokers, and agents.

Over the past twenty years, Mr. Veach has represented insurers, reinsurers, brokers, intermediaries, and others in dozens of insurance insolvencies, including those arising from the rehabilitation or liquidation or Frontier (in rehabilitation), Transit Casualty, Executive Life, Delta America Re, P-I-E Insurance Company, the Mission Companies, Millers National, Midland Insurance Company, MCA,  Mutual Fire & Marine, Ambassador,  various syndicates at the New York Insurance Exchange, and other failed entities in Bermuda and London.  See, e.g.,  Corcoran v. Ardra, 156 A.D. 2d 70, 553 NYS 2d 695(1st Dept 1990) aff'd, 77 N.Y. 2d 225 (1990) cert. denied, Ardra Insurance Co. v Curiale, 500 U.S. 953 (1991).   He is a member of the International Association of Insurance Receivers.

Mr. Veach has represented two New York domiciled companies in their efforts to eliminate capital impairments and avoid insolvency pursuant to NYIL 1321 and Regulation 141.  For a short synopsis of regulation 141 and how it operates, see J. Veach, Viewpoint: Recovery Plan, JTW News (July/August 2005).  He has also been involved in the drafting of disclosure notices and endorsements relating to the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act and its recent Extension.  He has commented on and reviewed proposed wording for both primary policies and reinsurance treaties and certificates.  

Mr. Veach is a frequent speaker at insurance and reinsurance conferences and seminars sponsored by Mealey's, American Conference Institute,  IRU,  Executive Enterprises,  the Independent Research Institute.  and the Practicing Law Institute (PLI).  For the past five years he has co-chaired the PLI's Reinsurance Law and Practice Seminar in New York City.

Mr. Veach has represented companies in run-off, as well as run-off managers.  For more than fifteen years he has overseen the run-off of an association of property insurers.  In October 2005, he spoke on the topic of U.S. alternatives to schemes of arrangement at the first Association of Insurance and Reinsurance Run-Off Companies (AIRROC) Conference.  He serves on AIRROC's publications committee.

Mr.Veach contributes to many reinsurance and insurance publications. His articles have appeared in Best's Review, Mealey's Litigation Reports,  JTW News,  Insurance Advocate,  ReActions,  Global Reinsurance, and the Environmental Claims Journal.  

He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and New York University School of Law.  He earned a Masters Degree in International Legal Studies from NYU Law School while serving in the New York District Attorney's Office. He is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey, as well as the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York and the United States Supreme Court.  

Mr. Veach is a member of the New York and New Jersey Bar Associations, the New York County Lawyers' Association, the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the International Insurance Society, the Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of New Jersey, and the National Peace Corps Association.

MEMBERSHIPS/HONORS

• New York Bar Association
• New Jersey Bar Association
• New York County Lawyers' Association
• American Bar Association
• International Association of Insurance Receivers
• International Insurance Society
• International Trumpet Guild

PUBLICATIONS

• Author, “Checklist for the Careful Commuter,” JTW News, March 2003.
• Author, “The Arbitration Clause: Insert in Haste, Repent in Litigation,” Reinsurance Law & Practice 2002.
• Author, “In the Event of Insolvency,” Global Reinsurance, November, 2000.
• Author, “The Law and Practices on the Confidentiality of Reinsurance Arbitration Awards” – “How Courts View Applications to Seal,” Insurance Advocate, June 10, 2000.
• Author, “Confirming Confidential Arbitration Awards in ‘Open Court’”, Mealey’s Litigation Report: Reinsurance, December 30, 1999.
• “Delta v. Transnational, Round II: Winding Up, Drawing Down, and the ‘Hotch-Pot Rule’”, Mealey’s Litigation Report: Insurance Insolvency, July 15, 1998.
• Author, “A Bumpy Ride On Bankruptcy Code §304’s Coattails,” Mealey’s Litigation Report: Insurance Insolvency, April 22, 1998.
• Author, “Courts, Legislatures, and Reinsurers Struggle With Receiver’s Refusal to Arbitrate,” Mealey’s Litigation Report: Insurance Insolvency, March 18, 1998.
• Author, “Union Indemnity And ‘Utmost Good Faith’”. Mealey’s Litigation Report: Insurance Insolvency, February 19, 1998.
• Author, “Reinsuring Environmental Claims: A Snapshot,” Environmental Claims Journal, Spring, 1998.
• Author, “Delta America Re’s Dividend Plan: Why (Almost) No One Objected,” Mealey’s Litigation Report: Insurance Insolvency, November 13, 1996.  

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• Moderator, "Commutations: Buyers and Sellers Views - Before, During and After Acquisition," AIRROC/Cavell Commutations Event, October 19, 2009.
• Moderator, "Run-Off Transactions Around the World," ABA TIPS Insurer Receivership & Run-Off Conference, June 5, 2009.
• Speaker, "Using Arbitration/Dispute Resolution Clauses That Anticipate Disputes - and Facilitate Resolutions Later," Reinsurance Agreements Conference, American Conference Institute, May 1, 2009.
• Speaker, "The New Three R's: Run-Off, Regulation & Reinsurance," Spring 2009 Conference, National Alliance of Life Companies, April 24, 2009.
• Panelist, "Identifying Emerging Run-Off Opportunities: Determining Which Policies or Lines of Business are Ripe for Run-Off and Charting the Best Course of Action," The 7th International Advanced Forum on Run-Off and Commutation, American Conference Institute, March 25, 2009.
• Moderator, "The Reinsurance Dispute Hypothetical: A Closer Look at Settling Disputes Around the Boardroom Table," Reinsurance Claims & Arbitration, An American Conference Institute's Forum, September 2008.
• Panelist, "Emerging Issues in Reinsurance: Pandemics, Global Warming, and Other "Hot" Topics," Reinsurance Law 2008, A Practicing Law Institute Conference, September 17, 2008.
• Speaker, American Conference Institute's Reinsurance Agreements Conference, April 29, 2008.
• Speaker, Contract Wording Discussion Group, November 15, 2006.
• Panelist, "Commutation Philosophies & Methodologies in The Run-Off Arena," AIRROC Rendez-Vous, October 2006.
• Lecturer, insurance and reinsurance industry seminars, including those given by Executive Enterprises, Inc., Mealey's, the Independent Research Institute and the American Conference Institute.
• Conference Co-Chair: Mealey’s Environmental Reinsurance Conference, November, 1999. 
• Speech: “Suits and Disputes Over Intermediaries’ Brokerage – A Proposed Solution,” C.W.D.G. (Contract Wording Discussion Group 10th Anniversary Symposium, June 8, 1999).

ADMISSIONS
New York, 1975
New Jersey, 1992

EDUCATION
B.A., Vanderbilt University, 1969
J.D., New York University School of Law, 1974
LL.M., New York University School of Law, 1981

Paula Marie Tziavragos (formerly Paula Marie Winters) litigation practice includes liability defense in personal injury actions involving construction, the New York Labor Law, premises liability, lead exposure, and environmental claims; property damage actions; and first-party liability coverage actions in both the trial and appellate courts in New York and New Jersey.

Prior to joining Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass in 2001, Ms. Tziavragos was the judicial clerk to the Honorable Edwin R. Alley, Judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey and the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, and Honorable Miriam N. Span, Judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, and an associate at Landman Corsi Ballaine & Ford in New York and New Jersey. Ms. Tziavragos is a member of the National Association of Insurance Women, New York State Trial Lawyers' Association, and New York Women's bar Association.

Ms. Tziavragos is a 1997 graduate of Seton Hall University School of Law and member of the New York and New Jersey bars.

MEMBERSHIPS

• New York State Trial Lawyers' Association
• New York Women's Bar Association
• New York County Bar Association

ADMITTED TO PRACTICE
New Jersey, 1997
New York, 1999
U.S. District Court District of New Jersey, 1997

EDUCATION
B.A., University of Delaware, 1993
J.D., Seton Hall University School of Law, 1997