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Founded in 1950, Rivkin Radler gained national recognition for the firm’s role in groundbreaking cases. Many of the world’s largest companies rely on Rivkin Radler to address their complex legal challenges. As a result, many clients have been placing their trust in us for decades.

Over the past 70 years, Rivkin Radler has become the advisor-of-choice to large corporations, middle-market: companies and successful individuals. The firm offers representation in 21 practice areas across five offices in the Northeast. With approximately 200 lawyers, Rivkin Radler has grown to become a nationally recognized provider of superior legal representation to a broad array of clients.

Rivkin Radler’s attorneys are leaders in legal, business and charitable arenas. Time and again, they are recognized by peer-review programs that recognize professional excellence.

The firm is committed to fostering diversity within an inclusive environment that respects the individual, promotes different perspectives, encourages distinctive ideas and drives dynamic results. Rivkin Radler employs individuals with varied backgrounds and life experiences who together create a firm with a rich and vibrant culture, enabling the firm to attract and retain the best talent and to bring a diversity of thinking to bear for its clients.

Main areas of practice
Health law:  Rivkin Radler represents a diverse group of healthcare clients, such as multi-provider healthcare delivery systems, including clinically integrated networks, IPAs, specialty provider networks, managed care organizations and ACOs, urgent care centers, hospitals, and physician practices.

The firm’s expertise encompasses complex healthcare transactions, regulatory compliance, enforcement actions, managed care contracting, disputes, and defense of criminal prosecutions. The firm frequently advises clients on privacy and security laws including HIPAA and the HITECH Act. The firm also represents clients in fraud and abuse cases, including False Claims Act and qui tam/whistleblower cases.

Insurance coverage: Rivkin Radler handles all aspects of insurance coverage law including litigation and dispute resolution, coverage advice and policy drafting. The firm’s practice includes casualty coverage (CGL, umbrella and excess liability); D&O liability coverage; employment practices liability; extra-contractual and bad faith; life, health and disability; personal lines (home and auto, professional liability); property; reinsurance; specialty and other coverage lines; and title insurance litigation.

With more than 60 attorneys and a long track record, Rivkin Radler’s insurance coverage group is one of the largest coverage-focused practice groups in the US. The firm represents insurers big and small, domestic and foreign, investor-owned and policyholder-owned.

The firm tackles the insurance industry’s newest and most challenging issues, with innovative strategies.  Rivkin Radler was among the first firms to handle complex coverage issues such as pollution, cyber, asbestos, advertising injury, molestation, life sciences, medical technologies, climate change, terrorism, antitrust, intellectual property, and fraud.  The firm stays at the cutting edge of insurance law.

We are committed to outstanding client service.  And our commitment is validated by our client retention rate.  Many of our insurer relationships are decades old.

The attorneys handle all aspects of insurance coverage law, including litigation and other forms of dispute resolution.  Insurers rely on our coverage advice.

Insurance fraud: the firm represents insurers across all lines of coverage and at every stage of the claim, from the initial report of the loss to resolution, obtaining groundbreaking results in all areas of health insurance fraud, ‘no-fault’ automobile insurance fraud and first-party property damage. The firm prosecutes RICO, fraud and declaratory judgment actions to extinguish exposure to fraudulent claims and recover wrongfully obtained claim payments.

Lawyer Profiles

Photo	Name	Position	Profile
	Alan Eagle	Alan C. Eagle maintains a national insurance coverage practice that is supported…	View Profile
	Joanne Engeldrum	Joanne M. Engeldrum counsels insurance companies on complex first- and third-party claims,…	View Profile
	Michael Kotula	Michael A. Kotula handles complex litigation involving asbestos, environmental pollution, health hazards,…	View Profile
	Evan Krinick	Evan H. Krinick, Rivkin Radler’s managing partner, is a trial and appellate…	View Profile
	Peter McNamara	Peter P. McNamara serves as coverage and defense counsel to America’s major…	View Profile
	Anne Murray	Anne M. Murray counsels insurance companies on complex first- and third-party claims,…	View Profile
	Alan Rutkin	Alan S. Rutkin handles every aspect of insurance coverage law. Alan has…	View Profile
	William Savino	A partner in the firm’s Insurance Coverage & Commercial Litigation Practice Groups,…	View Profile
	Stephen Smirti	Stephen J. Smirti, Jr., represents clients in insurance coverage and reinsurance matters…	View Profile
	Michael Troisi	Michael A. Troisi represents insurance companies across the country in coverage lawsuits,…	View Profile
	Michael Versichelli	Michael P. Versichelli focuses his practice on commercial and insurance coverage litigation,…	View Profile