Dan D. Kohane Email & Phone Number

A partner with Hurwitz Fine P.C., where I have been practicing for 44 years, my practice includes a focus on insurance coverage and counseling, strategic advice on excess matters, bad faith, extra-contractual liability, legislation, mediation, underwriting and counseling the insurance industry, the London market and corporate clients on matters involving liability, D&O, E&O, environmental coverages, with a particular concentration in New York insurance law including its application when the Bermuda Form is in play. I am retained as a coverage and commercial mediator and arbitrator, consultant, and expert witness, in matters through the United States and London. I chair our firms Insurance Coverage and Extracontractual Liability Team as well as our ADR Team.I am a past president of the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel, having been awarded, in 2022, its Lifetime Achievement Award. I was a founding Regent of the American College of Coverage Counsel and am a certified mediator in the USDC for the WDNY. I am also a past president of the National Foundation for Judicial Excellence, the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel Foundation and the Erie County Bar Foundation.An educator, by trade and avocation, I have presented over 250 continuing legal education programs to local, state, national and international legal and insurance organizations and probably triple that number to insurance companies. For 37 years, I have served as an Adjunct Professor of Insurance Law at the University at Buffalo School of Law and was awarded the Ken Joyce Excellence in Teaching Award in 2022. I am licensed as a Foreign Legal Consultant by the Law Society of Upper Canada. I am proud to be the first international member of the Canadian Defence Lawyers, Canada's only national organization representing the interests of civil defense attorneys. I am a past Board Member of both the DRI and Lawyers for Civil Justice. My firm handles a broad array of insurance coverage, commercial, personal injury , professional liability and other civil litigation mattersIn its 25th year of publication, our team produces "Coverage Pointers", our firm's nationally recognized electronic insurance coverage newsletter, I was the co-Editor-in-Chief of the DRI Insurance Law Committee’s 2014 publication: “ Writing a Reservation of Rights: A North American Compendium”.Reach out to me at 716-849-8942, ddk@hurwitzfine.com or @kohane. In some jurisdictions, LinkedIn profiles are considered "Attorney Advertising” . Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

Listed skills include Litigation, Product Liability, Civil Litigation, Mediation, and 38 others.