Alan S. Rutkin has been named to the Who’s Who Legal: Insurance & Reinsurance 2018 directory.  Alan, a partner in the firm’s Insurance Coverage and Privacy, Data & Cyber Law practice groups, is one of only 674 attorneys across 52 jurisdictions to be recognized in this prestigious publication.

Who’s Who Legal, commenting on his inclusion,

Alan Eagle will be chairing the New York Bar Association’s Insurance Coverage program in New York City on May 18, 2018, entitled “Insurance Coverage: A Glimpse Forward and a Glance Back.”  Alan put together a panel of  leading insurance lawyers who will be presenting on a number of topics, and he will be presenting on

The prestigious Chambers USA Directory has once again included Rivkin Radler LLP in its New York rankings.  The firm’s Insurance Coverage Practice Group has moved from Band 4 to Band 3 in the Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Insurer category and its Health Services Practice Group ranked in Band 4 in the Healthcare category. Firm partner William

William Savino presented “’CryptoMania’ an Update: The New Digital Currency Frontier – Bubble or Boom? You Decide” at the Brokers and Reinsurance Markets Association (BRMA) on April 9.

The presentation, which served as an update to a presentation Bill gave to BRMA in 2017, covered bitcoin as it finds its place in our system of

HACKENSACK, NJ  – – Rivkin Radler LLP is pleased to announce that Brian Ade, Nancy A. Del Pizzo and Gene Kang have been named 2018 New Jersey Super Lawyers.  Ade was named a Top Rated Products Liability Attorney; Del Pizzo was named a Top Rated Intellectual Property Litigation Attorney; and Kang was named a Rising

In a Decision and Order dated February 21, 2018, Frank Valverde obtained summary judgment declaring that our insurance client owes no coverage in a hotly contested insurance coverage dispute involving additional insured issues and the application of a contracted persons exclusion to employees of upstream contractors.  Insurance coverage had been sought for an underlying action

David M. Grill and Michael Welch obtained a significant victory on behalf of their client who owns a residential property in Brooklyn.

Specifically, they were awarded partial summary judgment for the client on the issue of an adjoining property owner’s strict liability. The award was pursuant to New York City Building Code § 3309.4, for

Michael Kotula will be a speaker at DRI’s Insurance Coverage and Claims Institute Seminar, which takes place March 21-23 in Chicago, Illinois.

What you will learn:

• Insights on when independent counsel is required and when it is not
• Strategies for using policy provisions to obtain the information to which an insurer is entitled
• Approaches

Ian Linker’s article, “ERISA’s Preemption of Discretionary Clause Bans: A Lost Clause?” was this week’s feature article in DRI’s Newsletter – The Voice.

To read the article click here.

Jason Gurdus will be presenting a Dean’s Hour CLE for the Nassau County Bar Association on January 30, 2018 on the topic of “New York Insurance Construction Defects.”

The Dean’s Hour, hosted by Michael Cannata and Frank Misiti, co-chairs of the NCBA’s Insurance Law committee, will feature a talk highlighting insurance coverage considerations in connection with construction