Katz, Mark S.

Mark S. Katz is experienced in various areas of complex insurance and reinsurance litigation as well as insurance regulatory issues. His experience includes first-party, third-party and reinsurance coverage disputes involving matters such as property damage, builders' risk, lost business income, extra expense, and boiler and machinery claims. He has litigated actions involving properties under construction, manufacturing facilities, hotel/resorts, casinos, residential condominium/co-op buildings, warehouses, big box retail stores and various other commercial properties. He is also experienced in the defense of liability actions involving matters such as employment practices, exposure to pollutants and toxins, suits against directors and officers, and professional errors and omissions.  He is admitted to the New York and New Jersey bars and has litigated in numerous other federal and state courts throughout the United States. Mr. Katz is a graduate of Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and of Hofstra Law School (J.D.), where he was an editor of the Hofstra Law Review.

PUBLICATIONS

• Co-author, "'Chinese Drywall' First-Party Coverage Implications," Mealey's Llitigation Report: Insurance, September 2, 2009.
• Co-author, “Commentary, Chauvin v. State Farm Fire & Cas.Co.: The U.S.C.A. Fifth Circuit Affirms Insurers’ Approach to Louisiana’s Valued Policy Law,” Mealey’s Litigation Report: Catastrophic Loss, September 2007.
• Co-author, “The Time Factor in Business Income Loss Insurance,” New York Law Journal, November 24, 2003.
• Co-author, “Looking Back, Looking Forward: How to Measure Business Interruption Losses,” Mealey’s Business Interruption, December 2002.
• Co-author, “First Party Insurance Coverage for SARS,” The Risk Management Letter, Vol. 24, Issue 3.
• Editor, Hofstra Law Review

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• Speaker, The Insurance and Reinsurance Impacts of the Japan Earthquake Webinar," Perrin Conferences, May 18, 2011.
• Speaker, "Litigating the Condominium/Landlord Tenant Claim" and "First-Party Property Implications of the Japan Earthquake/Tsunami Disaster," ABA TIPS Property Insurance Law Committee Annual Spring CLE Meeting, April 28-30, 2011.
• Speaker, "Delay in Completion Endorsement, Measuring The Delay," ABA TIPS Property Insurance Law Committee Annual Spring CLE Meeting, May 16, 2009.
• Speaker, "Builders' Risk Coverage Issues," PLRB Large Loss Conference, 2008.
• Speaker, "Fundamentals of Property Insurance Law in New York," Sterling Educational Services, 2003.

ADMISSSIONS
New York, 1994
New Jersey, 1994

EDUCATION
B.A., Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, 1990
J.D., Hofstra University School of Law, 1993