Overview
- Insurance practice focuses on both property and casualty coverage issues as well as reinsurance.
- Claims involve major industrial, commercial, and technology losses.
- Intellectual property practice has involved patent litigation ranging from cameras to vaccines, including issues involving trademarks and trade names.
Credentials
Education
- Harvard Law School, J.D. (1978)
- Cornell University, B.S., Engineering, with distinction
Selected Results
Representative Matters
Declaratory judgments ruling no duty to defend lawsuits under the “personal and advertising injury” coverage of CGL policies.
Dismissal of coverage lawsuits for construction defect claims.
September 11 insurance claims for all buildings at the World Trade Center and several related business interruption claims.
Reinsurance claims involving loss of data, pharmaceuticals, asbestos, ocean cargo, and supercomputers.
Mold and other progressive loss claims.
Recognition
- Named a “Top Rated Lawyer in Insurance Law,” American Lawyer Media (2013)
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America (2012-2025 editions)
- Named a "Massachusetts Super Lawyer," Super Lawyers (2004, 2006-2019)
News & Insights
In the News
Legal Insights
Speeches
- 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Ensuing Loss Coverage
American Bar Association, Las Vegas, Nevada (April 8, 2016) - All Risk Overview
American Bar Association, Palm Beach, Florida (May 16, 2013) - A Greater Appreciation of Contingent Business
Loss Executives Association, Tampa, Florida (January 18, 2012) - Mock Reinsurance Arbitration Deliberation
Massachusetts Reinsurance Bar Association, Harvard Club, Boston, Massachusetts (October 1, 2009) - Dollars and Sense: Loss of Market, Business Interruption, Contingent Business Interruption, and Creative Lawyering
PLRB/FDCC, Chicago, Illinois (September 14, 2008) - A New Twist on an Old Problem: The Impact of a Loss of Historical Data on the Business Interruption Claim
The Property Loss Research Bureau and The Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, Embassy Suites O'Hare Hotel, Chicago, Illinois (October 23, 2006) - Business Interruption Issues
Practicing Law Institute (February 14, 2005) - Critical Issues in Business Interruption After 9-11
Joint PLRB/FDCC (September 14, 2004) - Mold and the Causation Quagmire
Complex Insurance Claims Litigation Association (June 14, 2003)
Practices
Admissions
- Massachusetts
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Maine
- U.S. District Court, Massachusetts
- U.S. District Court, Minnesota
