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John Curley regularly represents policyholders in coverage matters involving D&O and general liability insurance. Among other recent successes, he was part of the HNRK team that represented Syngenta in its successful effort to recover insurance coverage for a products liability class action related to one of Syngenta’s herbicides. He is also representing Syngenta in current litigation seeking coverage for thousands of tort lawsuits alleging harm arising from exposure to a different herbicide, and he helped win a trial for Syngenta in a coverage claim against its primary insurer, Zurich American Insurance Company. John advises companies and individuals on various insurance issues. Recent work includes representing a personnel staffing company and its captive reinsurer in litigation with an insurer related to alleged collateral requirements under a reinsurance agreement. He recently represented a construction company in litigation against its insurance broker. He also advises individuals with respect to insurance coverage questions, including on issues related to professional liability insurance. Outside of his insurance practice, he focuses on securities litigation and complex business disputes. Recent examples include representing an e-commerce company in several M&A-related disputes involving alleged breaches of representations and warranties, an investment banking firm in a commercial dispute, a closely-held company in a shareholder dispute with one of its founders, and an individual in a trade secrets litigation. He also represents clients in securities-related civil litigation and regulatory investigations and proceedings, including investigations by FINRA and the SEC. John has been recognized as a Litigation Trailblazer by The National Law Journal (2022), on Benchmark Litigation’s 40 & Under List and Future Star List since 2021, and as a New York Metro Super Lawyer since 2017.

Miriam is a litigator who handles commercial disputes on behalf of a diverse client base, ranging from individuals to public agencies and multinational corporations. With experience in state and federal courts, administrative proceedings, and arbitrations, she has won numerous favorable outcomes, including on dispositive motions, in jury and bench trials, and on appeal. Miriam was a member of the team that represented Syngenta last year in an arbitration seeking coverage for thousands of tort lawsuits alleging defects arising from exposure to an herbicide, and was on the trial team that secured a win for Syngenta over its primary insurer, Zurich American Insurance Company. In the last year, she has represented the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its affiliate agencies in several high-profile matters, including in a multi-million dollar trial challenging the New York City Subway’s speed policy.

Throughout his career, Bradley Nash has acted as an advisor to policyholders in a range of coverage disputes involving commercial liability, errors and omissions, employment practices, computer fraud, product contamination, and other types of insurance policies. He has particular expertise representing policyholders seeking coverage under D&O policies for the defense of civil lawsuits and criminal prosecutions, an area in which he has secured a precedent-setting decision in New York state court. Brad’s notable victories include: obtaining a preliminary injunction directing excess insurers for hedge fund Platinum Partners to advance $15 million in defense costs for a federal criminal prosecution; obtaining a preliminary injunction from the Northern District of California directing Clear Blue Specialty Insurance Company to advance defense costs to Ozy Media, Inc.’s CEO related to a high-profile criminal prosecution in the Eastern District of New York; and winning summary judgment on behalf of a romaine lettuce producer seeking coverage under a product contamination policy for losses arising from E. coli outbreaks.Brad graduated from Harvard Law School and clerked in the Eastern District of New York.

As head of the Insurance Recovery Group at Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney—the women-owned litigation boutique she co-founded nearly 30 years ago—Dorothea W. Regal has obtained hundreds of millions of dollars for corporate policyholders from insurers. She has extensive litigation and arbitration experience in the U.S. and internationally. Dorothea has negotiated scores of complex, highly valuable settlement agreements resolving coverage disputes for policyholders. In the courtroom, Dorothea has contributed to cutting-edge legal developments in insurance law, prevailing for commercial and industrial policyholders in connection with insurance coverage for environmental, asbestos, products and directors & officers liability claims, property insurance, and business interruption coverage. As just one example, she and her team won a groundbreaking ruling for Syngenta in a $170 million insurance coverage dispute over product liability claims involving the company’s herbicide, and secured a precedential decision from the Delaware Supreme Court upholding the trial court’s two summary judgment rulings in favor of Syngenta on the issue of whether a threat of a claim constituted a claim under Delaware law. Dorothea has been named the Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyer of the Year by Euromoney (2021); a Distinguished Leader by the New York Law Journal (2021); a Notable Diverse Leader in Law and a Notable Woman Business Owner by Crain’s New York Business (2022 and 2021, respectively); and an Elite Boutique Trailblazer by The National Law Journal (2018). She has also been recognized as a top litigator by Benchmark Litigation since 2018 and as a New York Metro Super Lawyer for Insurance Coverage since 2014.