Best's Insurance Professional Resources
Client-Recommended Attorneys, Adjusters and Experts
Best's Insurance Professional Resources
Client-Recommended Attorneys, Adjusters and Experts


Best's Recommended Insurance Attorneys - General Defense

926 RXR Plaza, West Tower, 10th Floor, Uniondale, New York 11556-0926

Established: 1950

Practice Areas

  • Appeals
  • Banking
  • Bankruptcy
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Construction
  • General Liability
  • Insurance Coverage
  • Insurance Fraud
  • Intellectual Property
  • Medical Malpractice Defense
  • Professional Liability
  • Labor and Employment
  • Complex Torts & Product Liablility
  • Compliance, Investigations & White Collar
  • Corporate
  • Directors & Officers Liability
  • Health Services
  • Privacy, Data & Cyber Law
  • Real Estate, Zoning & Land Use
  • Tax
  • Trust & Estates

About Us

Rivkin Radler's Insurance Coverage Practice Group is one of the largest of its kind in the nation.
We represent many of the nation's largest insurers. We also represent foreign insurers and policyholder-owned insurers. Many of these relationships go back more than 30 years.

Rivkin Radler tackles the insurance industry's most challenging issues with innovative strategies and outstanding client service. We were among the first firms to handle complex coverage issues such as pollution, asbestos, advertising injury, molestation, life sciences, medical technologies, climate change, terrorism and the financial crisis, and we remain at the forefront of insurance law.

Our attorneys handle all aspects of insurance coverage law:

• Litigation and dispute resolution: We represent insurers in every form of dispute resolution, including negotiation, mediation, arbitration and litigation, throughout the country. We have litigated many of the leading insurance coverage cases.
• Coverage advice: From answering coverage questions to developing prudent claims-handling strategies, our attorneys successfully resolve insurance claims before policyholders resort to litigation.
• Policy wording: We draft language for policies including those concerning new or industry-specific issues to ensure our clients anticipate, evaluate and protect against ever-changing risks.

Our insurance coverage and litigation lawyers are respected by their peers as prominent members of the insurance coverage bar. Our attorneys contribute to treatises and trade and industry publications. Our attorneys speak before clients, industry associations and groups such as the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education and the Defense Research Institute. We take leadership roles in national, state and local bar associations.

Since 2019, the well-respected Legal 500 has recommended Rivkin Radler's Insurance Coverage practice in the insurance: advice to insurers category. The Legal 500 highlights the practice area teams who are providing the most cutting-edge and innovative advice to corporate counsel. The Insurance Coverage Group since 2016 has been recognized in the prestigious Chambers USA directory in the Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Insurer category. Also the group since 2018 has been included in the U.S. News – Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms" Metropolitan New York Tier 1 for Insurance Law.

Additional Locations

  • New York, NY
  • Hackensack, NJ
  • Albany, NY
  • Poughkeepsie, NY

Client Information

Insurance Clients

Non-Insurance Clients

  • Citibank, N.A.
  • L.I. Power Authority

Personnel Information

Insurance Coverage Partners


Brian Ade

Uniondale, NY

Admitted
  • New Jersey, 1980
  • U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts of New York
Education:
  • Western New England College, J.D., 1980

Michael Cannata

Uniondale, NY

Admitted
  • New York, 2008
Education:
  • Syracuse University College of Law, J.D., 2007

Alan C. Eagle

Uniondale, NY

Admitted
  • New York, 1986
Education:
  • St. John's University, J.D., 1986

Joanne M. Engeldrum

Uniondale, NY

Admitted
  • New York, 1997
Education:
  • St. John's University, J.D., 1997

Michael J. Jones

Uniondale, NY

Admitted
  • New Jersey, 1985
  • New York, 2011
  • Pennsylvania
Education:
  • Villanova University, J.D., 1984

Gene Y. Kang

Uniondale, NY

Admitted
  • New York, 2012
  • New Jersey
Education:
  • Fordham University School of Law, J.D., 2011

George D. Kappus

Uniondale, NY

Admitted
  • New York, 1974
  • Michigan, 1984
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
Education:
  • Boston College, J.D., 1971

Michael A. Kotula

Uniondale, NY

Admitted
  • New Jersey, 1990
  • District of Columbia, 1991
  • New York, 1995
  • U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
Education:
  • The George Washington University, J.D., 1990

Evan H. Krinick

Uniondale, NY

Admitted
  • New York, 1985
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
  • U.S. Supreme Court
Education:
  • Albany Law School of Union University, J.D., 1985

Robert A. Maloney

Uniondale, NY

Admitted
  • New York, 2004
Education:
  • New York Law School, J.D., 2003

Greg E. Mann

Uniondale, NY

Admitted
  • New York, 2012
Education:
  • Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, J.D., 2011

Sean McAloon

Uniondale, NY

Admitted
  • New York, 2007
Education:
  • New York Law School, J.D., 2006

Peter P. McNamara

Uniondale, NY

Admitted
  • New York, 1982
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York
Education:
  • St. John's University, J.D., 1981

Frank Misiti

Uniondale, NY

Admitted
  • New York, 2005
Education:
  • Hofstra University School of Law, J.D., 2004

Anne M. Murray

Uniondale, NY

Admitted
  • New York, 1993
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
Education:
  • Suffolk University, J.D., 1992

John L. Rivkin

Uniondale, NY

Admitted
  • New York, 1982
  • Florida, 1983
  • District of Columbia, 1985
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York
  • U.S. Supreme Court
Education:
  • University of Virginia, J.D., 1981

Alan S. Rutkin

Uniondale, NY

Admitted
  • New York, 1984
Education:
  • Boston University, J.D., 1983

William M. Savino

Uniondale, NY

Admitted
  • New York, 1975
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
  • U.S. Supreme Court
Education:
  • Fordham University, J.D., 1974

Stephen J. Smirti, Jr.

Uniondale, NY

Admitted
  • District of Columbia, 1976
  • New York, 1977
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
  • U.S. Supreme Court
Education:
  • St. John's University, J.D., 1976

Norman L. Tolle

Uniondale, NY

Admitted
  • New York, 1973
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York
Education:
  • New York University, J.D., 1972

Michael Troisi

Uniondale, NY

Admitted
  • New York, 1986
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York
Education:
  • Temple University, J.D., 1985

Robert Tugander

Uniondale, NY

Admitted
  • New York, 1993
Education:
  • Hofstra University, J.D., 1992

Frank A. Valverde

Uniondale, NY

Admitted
  • New York, 2002
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York
Education:
  • New York Law School, J.D. (cum laude), 2001

Michael P. Versichelli

Uniondale, NY

Admitted
  • New York, 1994
Education:
  • Fordham University, J.D. (cum laude), 1993

Michael P. Welch

Uniondale, NY

Admitted
  • New York, 2002
Education:
  • Brooklyn Law School, J.D. (magna cum laude), 2001

Steven M. Zuckermann

Uniondale, NY

Admitted
  • New York, 1997
Education:
  • St. John's University, J.D., 1996

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