About
Michael S. Komar has almost twenty-5 years of experience handling complex coverage insurance and business litigation subjects. Mr. Komar s coverage insurance litigation enjoy has protected managing dozens actions involving pollution, asbestos, silica, lead paint, poisonous tort, production disorder, trendy legal responsibility and California Prop. sixty four and sixty five claims, further to representing insurance customers in prepackaged bankruptcy, reinsurance, broker legal responsibility and first-party assets disputes. Many of the insurance moves defended by Mr. Komar concerned claims not best for declaratory judgment and breach of settlement, however also terrible faith and unfair declare managing practices.
Mr. Komar has evolved an intimate working expertise of the numerous liability insurance coverage paperwork utilized over time (e.g., M&C, OL&T, Garage Keepers Liability, CGL, Spectrum Business Liability, umbrella, extra and claims-made coverage paperwork). In addition, Mr. Komar has taken and defended masses of reality witness and professional depositions, argued numerous discovery, in limine and dispositive motions, participated within the trial/hearing of a number of instances and arbitrations, submitted and argued various appeals, and interviewed infinite people involved with underwriting, the development of coverage bureaucracy, drafting committees of the NBCU, IRB and ISO, the dealing with of claims, and the rendition of loss manage and engineering services.
Aside from his sizable work inside the insurance insurance area, Mr. Komar also has spent many years representing banks and other clients in various securities moves, and has furnished litigation recommendation to monetary establishments and investors in connection with various company transactions. Mr. Komar additionally has giant enjoy defending commercial settlement and enterprise disputes, product liability, poisonous tort and environmental instances, consisting of authorities, magnificence motion and individual claimants.
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Location
Legal Issues
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Securities Law
- Insurance Defense
- Car Accidents
- Insurance Bad Faith
Costs
Certificates
Languages
- English
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Partner
Menz Bonner Komar & Koenigsberg LLP
2003 - Lawyer
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
1997 - Lawyer
Stenger & Finnerty
1993 - Lawyer
Jaeckle, Fleischmann & Mugel LLP
1992
Educations
Graduation year: 1992
Graduation year: 1989
