Mound Cotton announced today that they have elevated three attorneys to partner, effective January 1. Both Tesser and Markowitz work out of the New York office, and Tippit works from the Texas office. “We are honored to welcome Jodi, Stephanie, and...
Partner Barry Temkin gave a recent CLE on “Legal Ethics on the Silver Screen: Ethics for Insurance Lawyers and Adjusters”. Using excerpts from Hollywood films, Barry’s discussion was based on hypothetical questions arising from the...
Mound Cotton is honored to be included in U.S. News-Best Lawyers and Best Law Firms rankings. We are ranked National Tier 2 in Insurance Law and Metropolitan, New York City Tier 2 in Insurance Law. We are also proud that two of our attorneys have been...
Barry Temkin and Katharine Lechleitner spoke about New York ‘s Prompt Pay Act (PPA) and how it affects construction contractors at the New York City Bar on November 2. They discussed the PPA’s legislative history, common incorrect...
Partner Costantino Suriano spoke on “Leadership Through Claims” at the Gamma Iota Sigma Executive Speaker Series at the Maurice R. Greenberg School of Risk Management, Insurance and Actuarial Science (GSRM), St. John’s University, on October...
Partner Amy Kallal was a panelist on “Claims Updates: Molestation and PFAS” at AIRROC’s Legacy Transactions & Networking Forum on October 18. The panel was hosted by Marcus Doran at AIG and her co-panelists were Sin Senh at Roux...
In Raymours Furniture Co., Inc. v. Lexington Insurance Co. et al., No. 655167 2020, 2021 WL 4789148 (N.Y. Supr. Ct. N.Y. Cnty. Oct. 14, 2021), Mound Cotton’s clients were awarded a full dismissal with prejudice on the ground that the presence of the...
This article was published in Daily Business Review on October 14, 2021. Partners Wendy Stein Fulton and William Wilson spoke to the Daily Business Review about the firm’s strategy in Florida.
This article was published in the ARIAS-U.S. Quarterly on September 1, 2021. Partner Amy Kallal and Special Counsel Andrea Fort discuss recent cases involving the efforts to obtain access to arbitration awards which are filed as part of petitions to...
Partner and committee member Philip Silverberg will speak on “Legal Perspectives on Emerging Construction Risks and Perspectives on Covid-Related Issues,” at the Builder’s Risk & Construction Symposium. His copanelist is Mark Katz from...
A domestic corporation is a citizen of its state of incorporation and principal place of business for purposes of diversity jurisdiction.[1] By contrast, the citizenship of other “unincorporated” domestic business entities (such as limited liability...
Does An Insurer Have An Entitlement to Recoup Defense Costs When No Duty to Indemnify Exists? In a case of first impression for the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, the court chose not to follow prior decisions of its...
This article was published in Law360 on September 21, 2021: “Mound Cotton Adds Ex-Kiernan Trebach Insurance Partner” by Matt Perez Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass LLP expanded its Fort Lauderdale, Florida, office this month with the...
Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass 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,...
The Case Of Cadre v. Proassurance Casualty Company Rule 1:21-1B of the New Jersey Rules of Court governs the practice of law as a limited liability company, and provides in relevant part that “[a]ttorneys may engage in the practice of law as limited...
The New York Law Journal published “NY Prompt Pay Act for Construction Contractors,” written by partner Barry Temkin and coauthor Ken Eccleston, on August 10, 2021. This article provides an in-depth discussion of New York’s Prompt Pay Act,...
Partner Jeffrey Weinstein presented “Adjustment/Analysis of 2020 Civil Unrest Claims” at Loss Executives Association (LEA)’s Conference, the 2021 Golf and Education Event. Targeted towards insurance claim managers and adjusters, the...
Partner Amy Kallal will be presenting – in person – “Reinsurance 101 for Claims Handlers: What You Need to Know and Why” at the 2021 CLM (Claims and Litigation Management) Alliance’s Annual Conference, on August 12, at...
Partner Michael Koblenz, who represents the buyer in a real estate sale in the Hamptons, commented on the it in The Real Deal. He filed a complaint with the Department of State, alleging gross misrepresentation and exaggeration of the circumstances by...
William Wilson published new book, NJ Insurance Coverage Litigation – A Practitioners Guide (2021), 3rd ed. With co-author Frank DeAngelis, they provide a broad overview of insurance coverage litigation in NJ involving the enforcement and...
The Indiana Supreme Court Weighs In With the proliferation of computer crime these days, cyber insurance has become a must for businesses. There are many different types of cyber coverage available on the market, and the coverage that an insured...
Partner Matthew Lasky and associate Alexis Stevens will co-present “Privacy, Confidentiality, Data Protection, and Sanctions Clauses” as a Hot Topic at Reinsurance Association of America (RAA)’s Re Contracts: The Art of Designing...
Raymond Mastrangelo will speak on a panel discussing “The Scope of an Arbitration Panel’s Authority” at AIRROC’s Summer Membership Meeting on July 14. Joining Raymond on the panel is Ann Field, Senior Managing Director, Head of...
Maintaining Confidentiality When Petitioning for Relief in Court A long-running dispute between Pennsylvania National Mutual Casualty Insurance Company and one of its reinsurers, Everest Reinsurance Company, recently culminated in the unsealing of an...
This article was published on Law360.com (subscription required) on June 10, 2021, in Insurance Authority, and in the daily Insurance newsletter. On June 9, El Salvador became the first country to adopt a Bitcoin standard. The law passed by El...
Law firm Napoli Shkolnik, PLLC sought coverage under professional liability insurance policies issued by Greenwich Insurance Company and Hudson Excess Insurance Company for a lawsuit filed against it in federal court in Maryland, alleging that it had...
PC360: People on the Move Partner Kathleen DeLaney and Special Counsel Benjamin Messing joined earlier this year, as well as two new associates, expanding the firm’s footprint NEW YORK (May 24, 2021): Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass LLP today...
Mound Cotton’s Insurance practice group is ranked in Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Insurer, New York, in Chambers and Partners USA’s 2021 guide to the top lawyers and law firms in the United States, with partner Lloyd Gura recognized in Band 3. Click...
Partner Barry Temkin will discuss The Ethics of the Remote Practice of Law, and ABA’s Ethics Opinion 498, at NELA/NY’s (National Employment Lawyers Association) Spring Conference on May 14. With his co-presenter, Jennifer Goldsmith at...
State and federal courts across the country are grappling with insurance coverage litigation, as insureds who suffered business losses due to government-mandated shutdowns look to their property insurers for relief. These cases present the following key...
Barry Temkin co-authored “ABA Remote Work Guide Raises Bar For Atty Tech Know-How” in Law360 (subscription required) with Jennifer Goldsmith, vice president of professional liability claims at Ironshore, discussing ABA Ethics Opinion 498, a...
This article was published on Liberty Mutual’s website. This article will consider potential future claims against design professionals that are expected to arise from the Covid-19 pandemic and offer recommendations for how design professionals...
This article was published in the New York Law Journal on January 15, 2021. In addition to a 2018 ABA ethics opinion which outlines when law firms are ethically obligated to notify clients of data breaches jeopardizing the security of their confidential...
We want to extend a warm welcome to our new partners, Eric T. Krejci and Steven P. Nassi, both resident in the New York office.
MCWG Partner Matthew Lasky will be a panelist in the ‘Hot Topic Panel – Underwriting in the Time of Covid 19’ at the Re Underwriting 2020 — Underwriting Fundamentals and Current Issues for the Reinsurance Education Institute of...
Partners Matthew Lasky and Amy Kallal have prepared updates on two key areas for AIRROC’s Work From Home Webinars that they will present on September 29, 2020. To sign up or find out more about the webinars, ‘Vaping: What’s Hiding...
This article was originally published in the New York Law Journal on July 20, 2020. Expert Opinion The SEC and U.S. Justice Department are investigating suspicious stock trades made by U.S. Senator Richard Burr in February 2020, which might have been...
Partner Barry Temkin will be speaking on March 6 at the New York State Bar Association program on “Securities Arbitration 2020: Deep Dive.” See attached brochure for more information.
Partner Barry Temkin is quoted in an Investment News article about FINRA’s recent enforcement action against Prudential Investment Management Services regarding inaccurate retirement plan disclosures. To view this article please click below.
Defending Champion Mound Cotton will once again be sponsoring a team at the “Frozen Apple VII” insurance industry outdoor hockey game, taking place on January 18 at Lasker Rink in Central Park. Jeff Weinstein and Ken Labbate will be skating for MCWG....
Several MCWG attorneys will be attending the Loss Executives Association’s 89th Annual Meeting & Mid-Winter Educational Program in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, from January 15th to the 17th. Partner Jeffrey Weinstein will be a featured speaker,...
On December 18th MCWG participated in Brooklyn Public School 131’s Annual Toy Drive. Each child in the assigned third grade class wrote a letter to Santa Claus and our firm gladly granted their wishes. Click play to watch the video above.
Congratulations to our Partner Costantino Suriano for speaking about Cyber Law at the LEA 2019 Young Professionals Seminar at St. John’s University School of Risk Management on November 7, 2019. The seminar had presentations that covered: Cyber Attacks...
Our Partner William Wilson will be speaking this Wednesday, November 6, at the DRI Complex Coverage Forum taking place in the Hilton Hartford Downtown, 315 Trumbull Street, Hartford, CT. For more information please click the link below....
Congratulations to our partner, Costantino Suriano, for co-chairing a panel of industry leaders in the St. John’s University School of Risk Management annual conference, Regulatory Risk in Uncertain Times on October 23, 2019.
Our partner, Costantino Suriano, is co-chairing a panel of industry leaders in the St. John’s University School of Risk Management annual conference, Regulatory Risk in Uncertain Times on October 23, 2019, which will be held at the Yale Club in New York...
Partner Barry Temkin’s article, “New ‘Regulation Best Interest’ Becomes Effective for Broker Dealers” was published in New York Law Journal. NYLJ Article
Partner Costantino Suriano will present at the Loss Executives Association’s 4th Annual Young Professionals Day on Thursday, November 7, 2019 at the St. John’s School of Risk Management, Insurance and Actuarial Sciences. Please click the link...
MCWG’s 6th Annual NYC Reinsurance Conference is on Thursday, September 19 at the New York City Bar Association. This conference, chaired by Lloyd Gura, qualifies for CE/CLE credit. The Panel Moderators this year are Ann Field, Gregg Hirsch,...
Congratulations to Jack Bove! On June 12, 2019, he received the Network of Bar Leaders Presidents’ Award as President of the Managing Attorneys and Clerks Association at the Annual Presidents’ Dinner. The featured speaker was Letitia James, NYS Attorney...
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The article, co-authored with Brenda Dorsett, is about ethical concerns for lawyers who use Amazon Echo and other voice-activated digital assistants. It was published on Friday, May 24, 2019, as an Expert Analysis. Click here to download and read. Click...
The 2019 Annual Loss Executives Association Conference was hosted in Fort Lauderdale, Florida from January 30 to February 1, 2019.
Sanjit S. Shah represented MCWG as a panelist during a New York City Bar Association CLE course titled “Hard Legal Ethics Questions: How to Resolve Them or, Even Better, Avoid Them.” The course was held on May 16, 2019 from 9:00-10:45 AM and...
The article, named “America Has An Opioid Problem: Who’s Going To Pay To Fix It?”, is available in the AIRROC Matters 2019 Spring Issue and The Society of Actuaries. Read the article here.
Mr. Gura’s and Ms. Fort’s article titled “Automatization of Underwriting and the Future of the Reinsurance Relationship,” will be available to all members of the Intermediaries & Reinsurance Underwriters Association in the...
Mr. Temkin’s presentation of “The Trump Bubble: What Happens When the Longest Bull Market in U.S. History Hiccups?,” was chosen to be included in the 2019 PLDF Annual Meeting. This will take place at the W Lakeshore – Chicago, located at 644 N...
Mr. Lasky will speak about Privacy, Confidentiality, Data Protection and Sanctions Clauses, on Tuesday, July 23rd, from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m The RAA’s Re Contracts Course: The Art of Designing Reinsurance Contracts and Programs will be conducted on Tuesday,...
Jonathan Chernow delivered a lecture in May 2019, “But is it real? Addressing fakes and forgeries in the art market from an insurance coverage and risk management perspective,” addressing recent scandals in the news; how to spot forgeries and fakes...
Costantino Suriano was a speaker on behalf of The Loss Executives Association at St. John’s University’s Best and Brightest Students, hosted by Allied World Assurance Holdings in Bermuda on March 29, 2019. For more information please visit:...
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Partner Emilie Baklan-Caplan will speak at the Perrin Conferences’ Natural Disaster Conference on April 2-3, 2019 at the Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove, Miami, FL. This one-and-a-half-day conference will feature thought leaders with varied...
The New York-based law firm of Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass LLP announced today that Dustin DuBose will be joining the firm as Resident Partner in its new Houston, Texas office. Dustin, a seasoned litigator and advisor, has represented domestic...
Sanjit S. Shah represented MCWG as a speaker and faculty member during a New York City Bar Association CLE course titled “Ethical Dilemmas That Keep Lawyers Awake at Night.” The course was held on February 5, 2019 from 6:00-9:00 PM and...
Technology keeps progressing in leaps and bounds. We read that robots or the much- awaited (or dreaded) artificial intelligence are going to take over property claims work in the All Things Internet New World. Unfortunately, there is a “dark side” that...
On December 5, 2018, Justice Patrick J. McGrath of the New York Supreme Court, Rensselaer County, issued a decision in the case Black River Partners, et al. v. Adirondack Mechanical Services and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Index No. 252627/2016,...
Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass LLP will be hosting the IRUA/Reinsurance Networking Group Luncheon on Wednesday, January 23rd. The topic of the luncheon presentation will be “Ethics in Arbitration: Is It an Oxymoron? Arbitrator...
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The program will be offering 7 hours of CLE credit, including one hour of ethics CLE. To register or get more information, visit here.
On November 19, 2018, the Federal Bureau of Investigation New York Division Community Outreach hosted the 16th Annual FBI Citizens’ Academy Graduation Ceremony. Michael R. Koblenz was one of thirty one graduates.
U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” has ranked law firms in 75 national practice areas and 122 metro practice areas for 2019. Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass has been named as a Tier 1 firm in the New York Metropolitan area and in Tier 2...
MCWG’s 5th Annual NYC Reinsurance Conference is on Thursday, September 13 at the New York City Bar Association. This conference, chaired by Lloyd Gura, qualifies for CE/CLE credit. For more information or to register, please email...
Barry Temkin discussed whether Michael Cohen committed a crime under New York law when he recorded phone calls he had with President Trump in secret in Law360, “Cohen Tapes Show Broken Attorney-Client Relationship.” (subscription required) ...
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For more information about the program, please click here. This program offers 4.0 NJ CLE credits (including 1.0 ethics/professionalism credit).
Reprinted with permission from the New York Law Journal, Volume 259 – NO. 124 on Thursday, June 28, 2018. To view the article, click here.
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MCWG 5th Annual NYC Reinsurance Conference will be taking place on Thursday, September 13, 2018 at the New York Bar Association. This conference is a one-day educational and networking conference for experienced industry professionals. This...
May 14, 2018 (New York, NY) – On May 10, 2018, the judges of the West Virginia Mass Litigation Panel granted summary judgment in favor of New Hampshire Insurance Company on a $30 million claim arising from the March 2015 collapse of an airport...
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Partner Barry Temkin was recently quoted in an article in Investment News about a risk alert sent out by the Securities and Exchange Commission to advisers in regards to the overcharging of clients: “This might be a good opportunity for advisers...
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Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass LLP is pleased to welcome Counsel Laura F. Farrant, who will be joining our Florida office. Effective April 9, 2018
Marriott Princeton Hotel & Conference Center April 9-10, 2018
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Congratulations! The ARIAS U.S. Board of Directors have approved Michael Goldstein for certification as an ARIAS U.S. Arbitrator.
Click the link below to read the article. Finra: More than a quarter of arbitration awards go unpaid
Congratulations to Michael Koblenz for graduating the Nassau County Citizen Police Academy.
This article is reprinted with permission from the December 2016 Plus Journal, * Vol. XXIX * Number 12.
This article is reprinted with permission from the New York Law Journal, Volume 257—NO. 39, Wednesday, March 1, 2017.
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...
