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Rivkin Radler Offices

926 RXR PLAZA
UNIONDALE, NY 11556
NEW YORK
United States
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Rivkin Radler > The Legal 500 Rankings
Industry focus > Insurance: advice to insurers Tier 4
Rivkin Radler covers a wide range of issues, providing coverage advice and helping clients resolve disputes via litigation, mediation or arbitration. Vastly experienced practice head Alan Rutkin has resolved a large number of claims involving the environment, energy, and other complex issues. Michael Kotula is a key lawyer of the team, defending clients against various high-exposure claims including those involving health hazards, toxic torts, construction defects, and sex abuse. All lawyers mentioned here are based in Long Island. Norman Tolle retired in March 2021.Practice head(s):
Other key lawyers:
Key clients
Associated Electric & Gas Insurance Services Limited
Allianz Resolution Management
Ark Syndicate Management Limited
Badger Mutual Insurance
Central Insurance Companies
Crum and Forster Insurance Company
Factory Mutual Insurance Company
Global Indemnity Group
Great American Insurance
Hanover Insurance
Markel Service Incorporated
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
National General Lenders Service
Nautilus Insurance Group (a Berkley Company)
Preferred Contractors Insurance Company
Primerica Financial Services Inc.
Safepoint Insurance Company
Seneca Insurance
Sentry Insurance
Sompo Insurance
The Cincinnati Insurance Company
The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
Travelers
Trustmark Insurance Company
Utica National Insurance
Work highlights
- Representing the Fireman’s Fund’s in the North Carolina Supreme Court regarding the allocation of asbestos and benzene claims, involving past costs of $85 million and potentially tens of millions of dollars in future costs.
- Advising Allianz on appeal at the Ohio Court of Appeals in a coverage action regarding Sherwin Williams’ $100+ million portion of a Santa Clara Count lead paint nuisance settlement.
- Representing Badger Mutual in business interruption claims brought by a group of Las Vegas restaurateurs.
Industry focus > Healthcare: service providers
Rivkin Radler > Firm Profile
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
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.
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.
Main Contacts
Department | Name | Telephone | |
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Appeals | Cheryl Korman | cheryl.korman@rivkin.com | 516-357-3573 |
Appeals | Evan Krinick | evan.krinick@rivkin.com | 516-357-3483 |
Banking | William Cornachio | william.cornachio@rivkin.com | 516-357-3111 |
Banking | Harvey Epstein | harvey.epstein@rivkin.com | 516-357-3512 |
Banking | Michael Heller | michael.heller@rivkin.com | 516-357-3451 |
Bankruptcy | Stuart Gordon | stuart.gordon@rivkin.com | 516-357-3055 |
Commercial Litigation | Evan Krinick | evan.krinick@rivkin.com | 516-357-3483 |
Commercial Litigation | William Savino | william.savino@rivkin.com | 516-357-3349 |
Commercial Litigation | Michael Versichelli | michael.versichelli@rivkin.com | 516-357-3431 |
Complex Torts and Product Liability | Brian Ade | brian.ade@rivkin.com | (201) 287-2461 |
Complex Torts and Product Liability | David Richman | david.richman@rivkin.com | 516-357-3120 |
Compliance, Investigations and White Collar | Geoffrey Kaiser | geoffrey.kaiser@rivkin.com | 516-357-3161 |
Compliance, Investigations and White Collar | Kenneth "Casey" Murphy | kenneth.murphy@rivkin.com | 516-357-3154 |
Construction | David Grill | david.grill@rivkin.com | 516-357-3011 |
Corporate | Walter Gumersell | walter.gumersell@rivkin.com | 516-357-3098 |
Corporate | Stella Lellos | stella.lellos@rivkin.com | 516-357-3373 |
Corporate | Jeffrey Rust | jeffrey.rust@rivkin.com | 516-357-3404 |
Directors & Officers Liability | Jonathan Bruno | jonathan.bruno@rivkin.com | 212-455-9554 |
Directors & Officers Liability | David Wilck | david.wilck@rivkin.com | 516-357-3347 |
Employment & Labor | Barry Levy | barry.levy@rivkin.com | 516-357-3149 |
Employment & Labor | Kenneth Novikoff | ken.novikoff@rivkin.com | 516-357-3110 |
General Liability | Jacqueline Bushwack | jacqueline.bushwack@rivkin.com | 516-357-3239 |
General Liability | Frank Raia | frank.raia@rivkin.com | 516-357-3321 |
General Liability | Eric Strober | eric.strober@rivkin.com | 516-357-3434 |
Health Services | Robert Iseman | robert.iseman@rivkin.com | 518-641-7055 |
Health Services | Christopher Kutner | chris.kutner@rivkin.com | 516-357-3355 |
Health Services | Benjamin Malerba | benjamin.malerba@rivkin.com | 516-357-3128 |
Insurance Coverage | Alan Eagle | alan.eagle@rivkin.com | 516-357-3545 |
Insurance Coverage | Michael Kotula | michael.kotula@rivkin.com | 516-357-3066 |
Insurance Coverage | Alan Rutkin | alan.rutkin@rivkin.com | 516-357-3278 |
Insurance Fraud | Max Gershenoff | max.gershenoff@rivkin.com | 516-357-3444 |
Insurance Fraud | Barry Levy | barry.levy@rivkin.com | 516-357-3149 |
Insurance Fraud | Michael Sirignano | michael.sirignano@rivkin.com | 516-357-3073 |
Intellectual Property | Gregory Miller | gregory.miller@rivkin.com | 201-287-2474 |
Intellectual Property | Stephen Smirti | steve.smirti@rivkin.com | 516-357-3351 |
Medical Malpractice Defense | David Richman | david.richman@rivkin.com | 516-357-3120 |
Privacy, Data & Cyber Law | Shari Claire Lewis | shari.lewis@rivkin.com | 516-357-3292 |
Privacy, Data & Cyber Law | Benjamin Malerba | benjamin.malerba@rivkin.com | 516-357-3128 |
Professional Liability | Jonathan Bruno | jonathan.bruno@rivkin.com | 212-455-9554 |
Professional Liability | Janice DiGennaro | janice.digennaro@rivkin.com | 516-357-3548 |
Professional Liability | David Wilck | david.wilck@rivkin.com | 516-357-3347 |
Real Estate, Zoning & Land Use | Erez Glambosky | erez.glambosky@rivkin.com | 516-357-3065 |
Real Estate, Zoning & Land Use | Yaron Kornblum | yaron.kornblum@rivkin.com | 516-357-3082 |
Tax | Scott Eisenmesser | scott.eisenmesser@rivkin.com | 516-357-3085 |
Tax | Kate Heptig | kate.heptig@rivkin.com | 516-357-3421 |
Tax | Karen Sosler | karen.sosler@rivkin.com | 518-641-7053 |
Trusts & Estates | Scott Eisenmesser | scott.eisenmesser@rivkin.com | 516-357-3085 |
Trusts & Estates | Jeffrey Greener | jeffrey.greener@rivkin.com | 516-357-3177 |
Construction | Pia Riverso | pia.riverso@rivkin.com | 516-357-3159 |
Intellectual Property | Nancy Del Pizzo | nancy.delpizzo@rivkin.com | 201-287-2472 |
Lawyer Profiles
Photo | Name | Position | Profile |
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![]() | 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 |
![]() | Greg Mann | Greg Mann represents and advises some of the nation’s leading insurers on… | 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 |