Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass LLP Partner, Matthew Lasky, recently presented at Zurich’s 2025 Actuarial Network Meeting on Thursday, June 26. His session, California Wildfires: Insurance Impact, Coverage Issues, and What’s Next, explored...
NJ (06/25/25) – Mound Cotton successfully defended its clients, an insurance broker and agent, in a decision by the New Jersey Appellate Division, which upheld the dismissal of Consumer Fraud Act (CFA) claims brought against them. The appeal arose from...
Join us for the following panels and RSVP here to attend. Lloyd Gura: Conference Chair Matthew Lasky: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Reinsurance and Insurance Kristen Kish: Trends in the Retrospective Reinsurance Market Amy Kallal: Recent...
What was previously considered a “once in a generation” disaster may be a new normal. According to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, three of the top five deadliest and most destructive California fires have occurred in the...
NEW YORK — Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass LLP is proud to announce its elevation to Band 3 in Chambers USA 2025 for New York: Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Insurer—a significant achievement that reflects the strength, sophistication, and...
Costantino Suriano will speak at St. John’s University Greenberg School of Risk Management, Insurance and Actuarial Science, part of The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, 2025 Insurance Regulation Conference on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. This year’s event...
Costantino Suriano spoke at the LEA-St. John’s sponsored Bermudan Day, which was held at Allied World’s Bermuda office. The event featured top claims, underwriting, property, cgl, d/o and e/o officers presented. The educational program was both...
Florida Appellate Court Sides with Mound Cotton’s Clients in COVID-19 Dispute Over Business Interruption Provision FL (03/19/25) — On Wednesday, Mound Cotton’s clients won an appeal in a COVID-19 coverage action involving a claim for...
Costantino Suriano spoke at St. John’s University Maurice R. Greenberg School of Risk Management, Insurance, and Actuarial Science on “The Insurance Industry: Promises and Outcomes” on February 13, 2025. His presentation examined insurers’ and...
Indian Harbor Insurance Company v. Daikin America, Inc., Index No. 032586/2024 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. Rockland Cty. Nov. 11, 2024). Mound Cotton won summary judgment in New York State Supreme Court on behalf of its client, Indian Harbor Insurance Company, in a...
Amy Kallal will be a panelist on ARIAS•US’ Fall Conference’s “Emerging Claims & Recent Developments On High Stakes Claims” session on November 14, 2024. Mound Cotton is proud to be a sponsor of the Conference. Geared towards...
Partner Tom Breen was quoted in Law360 Insurance Authority, “Mixed Opioid Suit Rulings Complicate Disputes for Coverage” by Abraham Gross discussing recent insurance coverage litigation outcomes. Read the full article here (subscription...
Join us for the following panels and RSVP to attend:communications@moundcotton.com Lloyd Gura: Conference Chair Matthew Lasky: Hot Topics: Managing General Agents Guyon Knight: Reinsuring PFAS: Emerging Issues in the Next, Next Asbestos Kristen Kish:...
Mound Cotton, a leading law firm representing insurance companies, announced today that Tiffany J. Rothenberg has joined the firm’s Fort Lauderdale office. She represents commercial property insurance carriers in complex coverage disputes and bad faith...
Mound Cotton, a leading law firm representing insurance companies, announced today that Jason M. Chodos has joined its Florida office. An experienced litigator, Jason represents the interests of insurers in first-party property insurance coverage...
Law360 published “Assessing Whether Jarkesy May Limit FINRA Prosecutions” , written by partners Barry Temkin and Kate DiGeronimo, on August 30, 2024. You can read the article here (subscription required), or click on the link below.
In this federal court litigation a facultative reinsurer denied a claim under a first party property policy based on an alleged oral settlement agreement reached in 2007, eleven years before the original claim was settled and only a short time after...
Amy Kallal will discuss reinsurance contract recovery on ARIAS•U.S.’ webinar, “Fill In The Blanks: Considerations For Proving the Terms of Missing Contracts” on September 18 with co-panelists Randi Ellias from Aon and Jim Fitzgerald...
Illinois Appellate Court Sides with Mound Cotton’s Client on “Contamination” Exclusion in COVID-19 Coverage Action Mound Cotton’s client won an appeal in a COVID-19 coverage action involving a claim for “Tenants Prohibited...
This article will be published in the August 2024 issue of International Institute of Loss Adjusters (IILA)’s The International Monitor. This July 9, 2024 update was written with the invaluable follow up research and assistance of Mariah Patuel,...
Ray Mastrangelo will discuss Dispute Resolution Clauses: Arbitration, Mediation and Litigation at RAA Re Contracts: The Art of Designing Reinsurance Contracts and Programs on July 23 in New York City. This session will review various dispute resolution...
Amy Kallal and Pamela Minetto will speak on the panel, Abuse Claims: The Current Landscape, during AIRROC’s Summer Membership Meeting in New York City on July 16-17. Panelists will discuss issues that often arise with abuse claims such as lost...
Partner Thomas Breen was quoted in “High Court’s Regulatory Rulings Unsettle Coverage Risks” in Law360 on July 3, 2024, discussing insurance implications of recent Supreme Court rulings in Jarkesy and Loper Bright, seeking to limit the...
NEW YORK — Mound Cotton is pleased to announce that the firm has been ranked in Chambers’ USA 2024 Guide, New York, Band 4 in the Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Insurer category. Partner Lloyd Gura is ranked as a leading lawyer in Band 4. The...
Philip SIlverberg was a panelist on “What’s Old is New Again: Cyber Liability Insurance” at IADC’s 2024 Professional Liability Roundtable in Chicago on May 30. This panel will discuss the current state of risk, lessons learned, and the...
Lorraine Sylvester, who advises insurers on healthcare providers, was quoted in “Huge Payouts Pressure Hospitals To Address Doc Sex Abuse” in Law360 on May 14, 2024. “She said the liability standards for hospitals remain the same,...
Partner Barry Temkin wrote “Are SEC and FINRA Administrative Hearings Unconstitutional?” which the New York Law Journal published on May 9, 2024. Click below to read the full article.
Tom Breen was quoted in Law360 in the article, “Towers Watson Ruling Energizes Bump Up Supporters, Critics,” on March 14, discussing a Virginia federal court’s ruling that insurers did not have to cover shareholder suit settlements,...
Michael Goldstein was a guest on the Bite-Sized Business Law podcast, discussing insurance law and how it touches every area of our lives, the climate and digital risks faced by the industry, and the myriad of career paths in insurance law. See more...
Senior Counsel Michael Goldstein will join the faculty of Fordham Law School’s Corporate Law Center as an Adjunct Professor during the Fall 2024 semester. His Law and Business of Insurance class will provide an introduction to the landscape, i.e., the...
This article was published in ARIAS-US Quarterly, Q1 2024. In late May 2023, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued a detailed and complex decision that demonstrates in unusually lucid fashion that the interconnected worlds of U.S. and U.K....
Samuel Weiss will be on the panel, “Navigating Complex Mining Losses” at PowerCon Energy and Power Conference 2024 on April 3. Since 2011, PowerCon delivers interactive educational and analytical content regarding the associated risks for...
This article was published in IACP (International Association of Claim Professionals) Declarations 2022-2023 Year in Review, pp.39-43. You can see the article, attached, or download the article here: https://lnkd.in/g98GB-rF On May 23, 2022, California...
The Surfside collapse and its $1.2 billion class action settlement in 2021 created a pivotal moment for Florida insurance regulations in property losses. Partner Lloyd Gura dives into the legislative response of the state and its efforts to curb the...
HOUSTON — Mound Cotton, a leading law firm representing insurance companies, announced today that Karl Schulz joined the firm’s Houston office. An experienced litigator, he represents insurance companies in first party property insurance claims. “We are...
NEW YORK, FLORHAM PARK — Mound Cotton, a leading law firm representing insurance companies, announced today that Guyon Knight joined the New York office as a partner. Guyon represents insurers and reinsurers in high-stakes coverage and bad faith...
NEW YORK — Effective January 1, 2023, Mound Cotton promoted Andrea Fort, Pamela Minetto, and Craig Rygiel, to Partner and Kristen Kish to Special Counsel. “We congratulate and celebrate Andrea, Pam, Craig, and Kristen on their well-deserved success,”...
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CALIFORNIA — Mound Cotton, a leading law firm representing insurance companies, announced today that Lyndy Stewart joined the firm as a senior counsel. As an insurance litigator, her practice focuses on bad faith litigation and insurance coverage...
No Direct Physical Loss or Damage / COVID-19
Florida Circuit Judge Bradley G. Harper awarded Mound Cotton’s client a partial dismissal of property damage claims made by an international real estate investment company. Plaintiff alleged that the presence of COVID-19 physically damaged property by...
Partner Wendy Stein Fulton presented “Keeping the Faith: Detecting and Avoiding Bad Faith Bear Traps” at FINS 2022 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on August 12. She taught participants how to handle and respond to a plaintiff’s demand to...
No Physical Loss or Damage
New Jersey Superior Court Judge Steven Polansky awarded a full dismissal of COVID-19 business interruption claims. The policyholder failed to show that the presence of COVID-19 caused physical loss or damage required to qualify for coverage. “The...
Her team includes Special Counsel Colleen Martindale and two associates
NEW YORK — Mound Cotton, a leading law firm representing insurance companies, announced today that Lorraine Sylvester, a healthcare professional liability attorney, joined the firm as a partner. She is joined by Special Counsel Colleen Martindale, and...
This Q&A was published in the December 2021 issues of Mealey’s International Arbitration Report and Mealey’s Coronavirus Law Report. Senior Counsel Michael H. Goldstein was on a Q&A panel for Mealey’s International Arbitration Report...
NEW YORK — Mound Cotton announced today that they have elevated three attorneys to partner. Both Jodi Tesser and Jared Markowitz work out of the New York office, and Stephanie Tippit works from the Texas office. “We are honored to welcome Jodi,...
FORT LAUDERDALE — Mound Cotton is expanding its Florida office with the addition of partner Wendy Stein Fulton, a seasoned commercial litigator with experience representing clients in complex insurance coverage, commercial general liability,...
Partner Kathleen DeLaney and Special Counsel Benjamin R. Messing joined earlier this year, as well as two new associates, expanding the firm’s footprint
This announcement appeared in PC360: People on the Move. NEW YORK — Mound Cotton today announced that two new Special Counsel are joining the firm, Vanessa Durante in the Houston office and Ethan Friedman in the Emeryville office. Ms. Durante was...
The lawyers of Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass LLP mourn the loss of our brilliant and esteemed colleague, Daniel Markewich, who died on January 29 at the age of 76. Mr. Markewich passed peacefully, surrounded by family, after a long fight with...
