Contributors



 Mark J. Andreini
Mark Andreini’s practice focuses on representing corporate policyholders in insurance coverage disputes and advising clients in insurance placements. Mark has obtained insurance recoveries for environmental cleanups, toxic torts suits, personal injury and property damage claims, industrial accident cases, securities and fiduciary liability claims, DOJ investigations, employment discrimination matters, product liability claims, and first-party business interruption losses. In addition, he has represented insurers in claims against their reinsurers.


Bernard P. Bell
Bernie Bell has decades of experience as a trial lawyer in civil litigation, and he has concentrated his practice for the last 18 years on obtaining insurance recoveries for corporate policyholders and their individual directors and officers. His practice covers the full range of insurance claims, from property damage and business interruption losses to claims arising from alleged directors’ and officers’ liabilities, as well as employment, environmental, fiduciary (ERISA), product, professional, and toxic tort liabilities. He uses his extensive experience with contested claims to assist clients in the placement of coverage.


Tyrone R. Childress
Ty Childress is one of the country’s leading insurance recovery lawyers and serves as lead counsel for corporate policyholders in pursuing claims and litigation across the U.S. Ty has been involved in complex insurance coverage claims relating to a variety of matters, including major product liability claims, mass tort claims, and catastrophic property losses. Ty also has extensive experience in complex business and tort litigation, with an active commercial litigation practice in areas including railroad, antitrust, product defect, real estate, environmental, toxic tort, contract , fraud, and indemnity disputes.


Lisa M. Cirando
Lisa Cirando represents insurance policyholders exclusively. She provides advice and representation in insurance coverage disputes involving virtually every type of insurance policy. She crafts and implements innovative strategies that serve the diverse needs of her worldwide clients in a variety of industries including health services, financial services, real estate and construction, high-technology, manufacturing, shipping, media and entertainment, apparel, textile, retail, food and beverage, industrial, energy, and telecommunications.


Philip E. Cook
Phil Cook is a trial lawyer with first-chair experience in jury and bench trials and domestic and international arbitrations. His successful track record runs the gamut of commercial litigation, with a focus on financial institution, corporate governance, securities, and insurance recovery issues. He also has experience in cases involving antitrust and trade regulation, patent infringement, product liability and toxic torts, governmental liabilities, real estate, First Amendment, and environmental issues.


Jeffrey DeVore
Jeff DeVore represents companies in compliance issues and disputes related to government regulations and agencies, with a particular focus on environmental and aviation regulation. He has represented clients before the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as well as environmental agencies in Pennsylvania and several other states. Jeff has defended clients in alleged violations of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and advised clients on compliance with the CAA, Clean Water Act, and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). He also has provided advice and represented clients in disputes arising from the development of Marcellus Shale natural gas. Jeff has submitted comments to the FAA on behalf of airline clients in opposition to proposed agency rules. In addition, Jeff advises clients on potential environmental liabilities involved in corporate acquisitions.


Donald R. Erlandson
Don Erlandson’s practice is focused on complex insurance recovery counseling and litigation. Don has extensive experience analyzing cutting-edge issues in a wide variety of areas related to insurance recovery. He has assisted clients in successfully obtaining coverage under a broad array of insurance policies, including general liability policies, directors and officers liability policies, environmental liability policies, media liability policies, and professional liability policies. Don’s insurance recovery efforts have extended to a number of diverse industries and businesses, including railroad, technology, real estate, telecommunications, and entertainment. In addition to his insurance recovery practice, Don has experience in an assortment of other areas, including environmental and contract disputes and litigation.


Amy J. Fink
Amy Fink advises clients on a wide range of general and complex insurance-related issues, including coverage for products liability, environmental, asbestos, intellectual property, construction, products recall, directors and officers, toxic tort, employment practices, workers’ compensation, and securities-related claims. She also has an active commercial litigation practice in numerous other areas, including railroad, defamation, eminent domain, shareholder derivative actions, fraud, and unfair business practices. She has represented clients in all stages of federal and state courts litigation.


Michael H. Ginsberg
Mike Ginsberg is a trial lawyer who concentrates his practice on the representation of policyholders in disputes with insurance companies regarding coverage for product and environmental liabilities, toxic torts, and bad faith. He advises clients on the insurance aspects of corporate reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, and bankruptcies. Mike’s practice also involves the trial of environmental claims arising under Superfund and similar state statutes and other business lawsuits. In addition, he assists clients with the evaluation and management of asbestos liabilities.


Craig M. Hirsch
Craig Hirsch has helped institutional policyholders recover millions of dollars of insurance proceeds under all major business coverage lines, with a forte in analyzing directors & officers (D&O) and commercial general liability (CGL) policy forms. Craig has managed claims and assisted in coverage disputes and litigations involving a wide array of policies and coverages, including D&O, professional liability, employment practices liability, fiduciary liability, media and advertising liability, marine, war risk, first-party and third-party CGL, business interruption and “extra expense,” health care management risk, builder’s risk, surety bonds, financial institution bonds, and specialty banker’s portfolio protection.


John E. Iole
John Iole is a trial lawyer practicing policyholder-side insurance recovery and commercial litigation. He has handled a broad range of first- and third-party insurance coverage claims, including those resulting from directors and officers liability (D&O), natural disasters, employment practices liability (EPL), advertising injury, errors and omissions (E&O), and business interruption. John also counsels clients on insurance and attorney ethics matters.


Edward M. Joyce
Ed Joyce has extensive experience in insurance coverage litigation relating to professional liability, directors’ and officers’ liability, first-party property/business interruption claims, employee dishonesty, data breach/equipment damage, unfair competition, construction defect, intellectual property, advertising injury, business torts, products liability, employment liability, and environmental liability in courts throughout the United States.


Tara C. Kowalski
Tara Kowalski’s practice focuses on complex business, tort, and insurance coverage litigation, with an emphasis on representing corporate policyholders in pursuing insurance claims and litigation. Tara has represented clients in all stages of arbitration and litigation in state and federal courts throughout the United States. She has successfully obtained insurance coverage for various types of claims, including general liability, professional liability, property, business interruption, and extra expense, for clients in a broad array of industries, including railroad, real estate, telecommunications, medical, and financial services. Tara also maintains an active commercial litigation practice in other areas, such as toxic tort, contract, and indemnity. She is also experienced in e-discovery issues and has helped corporations design and implement e-discovery programs in response to the 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.


Peter D. Laun
Peter Laun has experience in a wide variety of areas, including insurance, product liability, toxic torts, commercial, business tort, employment, class actions, and engineering/construction. He has litigated in numerous federal and state courts, including courts in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, Texas, Mississippi, Minnesota, New Jersey, and California, and his experience includes trials in state and federal courts, injunction actions, governmental agency proceedings, arbitrations, and mediations. Peter also has handled matters and arbitrations in foreign countries, including the U.K., Bermuda, and Brazil. He has extensive experience in international discovery and electronic discovery issues.

Daven G. Lowhurst
Daven Lowhurst has more than 25 years of experience representing blue chip companies with interests throughout the world in civil trial and appellate matters. His practice focuses on contract and indemnity disputes, insurance coverage and recoveries, construction disputes, complex business and tort litigation, and appeals.

Ian F. Lupson
Ian Lupson is a seasoned and respected advocate and adviser on commercial legal matters. As a dispute resolution lawyer his caseload includes arbitration and litigation in the aviation, construction, energy, IT, manufacturing, and property sectors amongst others. He has particular experience in policyholder insurance and reinsurance coverage issues and is responsible for the Firm’s Insurance Recovery Practice in EMEA.


J.W. Montgomery III
Jack Montgomery’s practice focuses exclusively on insurance coverage advice, litigation, and arbitration. He handles insurance coverage litigation in various jurisdictions and national and international insurance arbitrations. Notable cases include Koppers Co., Inc. v. Aetna (1996) (affirming a $70 million jury verdict against Lloyd’s and London companies, subject to a deduction for “share” of settling insurers); Occidental Chemical Corp. v. Hartford (the “Love Canal” insurance coverage dispute); Motorola v. Associated Indem. Corp. (2004) (requiring third-party liability insurers to defend class actions seeking the costs of headsets for cell phone users); PepsiCo, Inc. v. Winterthur Int’l America Ins. Co. (2004) (limiting the scope of a seepage/pollution/contamination exclusion in first-party insurance to environmental damage and not to product contamination); and PepsiCo, Inc. v. Winterthur Int’l America Ins. Co. (2005) (holding that lack of merchantability of a product constitutes “physical damage to tangible property”). Prior to joining Jones Day, Jack was lead counsel in Joy Technologies, Inc. v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. (1992) (applying “regulatory estoppel” to bar application of the so-called “pollution exclusion”).


Martin H. Myers
Marty Myers is nationally recognized for extensive experience in insurance recovery for technology-focused enterprises. He has obtained large recoveries in coverage and bad faith cases under a variety of insurance policies for technology product liabilities, data/equipment damage, securities fraud exposures, employment practices, software or program failure, business interruption, trademark, copyright, and patent and unfair competition losses in federal and state courts throughout the United States. Marty has obtained similar insurance recoveries for clients in other industries including real estate (developers, REITs, and owners), entertainment (music, gaming, and publishing), retail (consumer electronics, apparel, and catalog), food and beverage (dairy and convenience food), and securities/financial services (brokerages, investment banks, and venture firms). He is co-leader of Jones Day’s Insurance Liability & Recovery Practice.


Allison Parker
Allison Buckner Parker focuses her practice on general civil litigation in federal and state courts, particularly in the area of corporate insurance coverage. Her experience includes early case assessment and case management, discovery, motions, and appellate briefing. She also serves on the Firm’s e-Discovery Committee. Allison is committed to the Firm’s pro bono efforts and has represented veterans through the Allegheny County Bar Foundation Veterans Legal Clinic. She is a member of the Pennsylvania and Allegheny County Bar Associations.


Amanda Schapel
Amanda Schapel’s practice focuses on insurance policyholder coverage and complex commercial litigation. Her recent representations include a multimillion dollar policy dispute stemming from a high-profile securities fraud case and an international environmental suit involving federal court proceedings, foreign courts, and international arbitration tribunals. Amanda’s experience also includes litigating patent infringement and other intellectual property matters.


Raymond H. Sheen
Ray Sheen represents policyholders in complex insurance coverage disputes. He has advised clients — often technology companies — on matters involving general liability, errors and omissions, directors and officers, and environmental policies, as well as numerous other forms of insurance. He also has extensive experience defending product liability and other consumer class actions.


Howard F. Sidman
Howard Sidman advises policyholders in complex insurance coverage disputes for a variety of underlying liabilities, including catastrophic property damage and resulting business interruption, toxic torts, ERISA class actions, and securities fraud cases. His substantive experience includes: first-party property damage insurance claims, business interruption claims, directors and officers (D&O) claims, fiduciary liability claims, and toxic tort claims. Through litigation, arbitration, and negotiation against insurance companies, he has recovered well over a half a billion dollars for policyholders. Howard also advises in the negotiation of terms and conditions of policies with insurance companies.


Steven E. Sigalow
Steve Sigalow is a leading insurance coverage lawyer, having recovered on behalf of corporate policyholders more than half a billion dollars in settlements and judgments. He has in-depth experience with the difficult issues arising under property/casualty and financial lines coverage forms, including CGL, excess/umbrella, property, D&O/management liability, E&O, and fiduciary liability. Steve has successfully litigated policyholder claims in state and federal courts throughout the country and has arbitrated claims in the U.S. and the United Kingdom. He is co-leader of Jones Day’s Insurance Liability & Recovery Practice.


Thomas H. Sear
Tom Sear has a diverse litigation practice in state and federal courts and before arbitration panels in New York and throughout the United States. He has handled significant commercial law, insurance coverage, environmental, product liability, and criminal matters.


David W. Steuber
Dave Steuber represents insureds in disputes with their insurers and is an undisputed leader in his field. When critical insurance disputes arise anywhere, insureds consistently look to him for representation.


Jason C. Wright
Jason Wright has represented corporations and public entities in a range of commercial litigation matters. His practice focuses on defending companies in consumer class actions, particularly matters involving claims based on unfair competition laws and the California Consumer Legal Remedies Act. Jason’s recent experience includes defeating class certification in one matter and obtaining dismissal of claims in a second matter.