Mark Katz

Biography

Mark has been practicing law since 1993 and is experienced in various areas of complex insurance and reinsurance litigation as well as insurance regulatory issues. His experience includes coverage disputes involving matters such as commercial property damage, energy and power generating facilities, builders' risk and delay in completion/delay in start-up losses, lost business income and other time element claims, and boiler and machinery claims. He has litigated actions involving properties under construction, energy transmission, distribution and power generating stations, manufacturing facilities, hotels and resorts, casinos, hospitals and health care facilities, 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, professional liability claims, exposure to pollutants and toxins, and suits against directors and officers.  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. Mark is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and 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.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Speaker, “Builders Risk: Faulty Workmanship/LEG Provisions – Impact on the U.S. construction market and ensuing claim issues,” IMUA 86th Annual Meeting, 2016.
Speaker, "Complex Builders Risk Losses With Delay In Completion Coverage," PLRB Large Loss Conference, 2014.
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.

 

Education

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Admissions/Licenses

• Bar Admissions: NY