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Troy Flascher is a partner in the firm's Buffalo, New York office. He graduated cum laude from Thomas M. Cooley Law School where he served as an editor of the school's law review. His general litigation practice includes product liability, transportation, premises liability, auto collisions, construction accidents, contractual liability, property damage claims, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) compliance issues and litigation, and claims of errors and omissions by insurance agents and brokers. Troy has litigated several wrongful death matters arising out of truck and automobile accidents.

Sharon Angelino focuses her practice on complex insurance coverage, professional liability, commercial litigation, and general corporate law.. She has more than 20 years of insurance coverage experience in both first-party and third-party claims. She has reviewed coverage issues in New York as well as throughout the Northeast, and she has served as national coverage counsel monitoring exposure and coverage issues for toxic tort claims for London insurers. She has served as coverage counsel to numerous underwriters and has a deep and nuanced understanding of their relationships with insurers in the Lloyds of London market and with London and U.S. brokers.. Sharon has extensive experience with matters involving a wide range of insurance coverage areas, including general liability, additional insured status, excess liability, bad faith, reinsurance, toxic tort issues, errors and omissions liability, pollution and environmental claims, disability policies and health care policies. In the area of directors and officers liability, she has handled both coverage and defense matters. Additionally, she is experienced in managing run-off accounts and is well versed in the unique business challenges they present as well as mandates for dealing with run-off claims in litigation.. Sharon regularly assists the firm’s corporate clients by reviewing quotes and insurance programs for purposes of identifying risk management protocols and gaps in coverage. She also conducts training sessions related to complying with contractual insurance requirements, maintaining appropriate insurance documentation and tendering to insurers. A New York State-certified insurance instructor, Sharon is a frequent presenter of insurance-related continuing education (CE) seminars.. Before becoming a lawyer, Sharon earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry and an M.B.A., then worked for several years in the health care industry. Her unique blend of knowledge and experience gives her an exceptionally high degree of understanding regarding some of the most complex challenges facing her clients.

Rachel Zucker is an associate in Goldberg Segalla’s Global Insurance Services Practice Group.. Rachel earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology at SUNY Geneseo, graduating cum laude. She went on to graduate cum laude from the University at Buffalo Law School, after serving as associate and then editor of the Buffalo Law Review, president of the Jewish Law Students Association, and vice president of The Family and Children’s Law Society. Rachel was also a member of the Buffalo Public Interest Law Program and the Animal Law Pro Bono Clinic.. Rachel’s previous experience includes a clerkship at a New York criminal appellate firm and an externship with the Hon. Sharon LoVallo of the Erie County Family Court. She also served a summer internship with the Erie County Bar Association’s Volunteer Lawyers Project. Rachel joined Goldberg Segalla as a law clerk before passing the New York State Bar Exam.

Mr. Bloomberg focuses in the area of business litigation, including securities matters, contracts (including for the sale of goods), shareholder disputes, insurance coverage, intellectual property and enforcement of non-compete covenants, as well as franchiser-franchisee litigation.. Phillips Lytle LLP is a full-service law firm with passionate people who are guided by a pragmatic process. We take great pride working on complex litigation and transactional matters in each of our 36 practice areas, which include Banking & Financial Services, Business and Commercial Litigation, Corporate, Energy, Environment and Telecommunications. Our offices are located in Albany, Buffalo, Chautauqua, Garden City, New York and Rochester, NY, as well as Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.. View my Page on

Joseph J. Welter is chair of Goldberg Segalla’s Toxic Tort and Environmental Practice Groups. Over the past 28 years, Joe has successfully defended the interests of companies and insurers, serving as national, regional, and local trial counsel in toxic tort and environmental litigation across the country. His experience has included cases involving alleged exposure to asbestos, Legionella bacteria, excess zinc, adulterated food, benzene and lead paint, pending in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Michigan, and other jurisdictions. Joe is a nationally recognized lecturer and author on emerging toxic tort issues, and a Continuing Education Instructor approved by the New York State Department of Financial Services. He is also the editor of Goldberg Segalla’s Asbestos Case Tracker, which has been hailed as the “go-to” resource for significant asbestos decisions and developments throughout the country, and which was recently named to the ABA Journal's prestigious Blawg 100 and named the Best Litigation Blog for 2016 by the Expert Institute in its annual legal blog contest.. Joe has also served as national science and trial counsel in mass toxic tort litigation, which has included federal court multi-district litigations and state court mass tort programs. Joe has also handled environmental contamination class action litigation.  Joe has worked with clients to develop effective litigation plans, trial strategies, and settlement matrixes for mass tort and class action claims in these litigation settings. On the science side, Joe has worked with clients to develop effective scientific and medical defenses, which includes extensive vetting and retention of expert witnesses and effective use of Daubert and Frye motions to preclude plaintiffs’ experts.. Joe possesses an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the highest available rating, and has been selected for inclusion in Business First's Who's Who in Law, New York Super Lawyers, and Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition.

Jonathan Schapp is an accomplished litigator with more than two decades of experience handling complex insurance, professional liability, and commercial matters in New York and numerous other jurisdictions. Jon defends insurers under commercial general liability and excess liability policies against claims for coverage for construction accidents, advertising injuries, and sexual harassment claims. He also represents insurers in complex first-party property claims, as well as in pursuing other insurers for the proper stacking of coverage under various applicable policies, resulting in recoupment of millions of dollars in settlements and judgments for his clients. In addition, Jon defends insurers against fraud claims.. Jon has represented a wide variety of clients in construction disputes, including owners and contractors in defeating claims of contractors and subcontractors, and contractors and subcontractors seeking to obtain payment for work performed. Jon has successfully handled appeals on a variety of issues and has resolved cases through mediation and arbitration.. His victories include BP Air Conditioning v. One Beacon, in which Jon was able to convince the New York Court of Appeals to enforce the policies’ other insurance clauses as written, thus settling a complex and ambiguous aspect of New York coverage law.. Jonathan has been selected for inclusion in Upstate New York Super Lawyers and is peer-rated AV, the highest possible rating, from Martindale-Hubbell.

John P. Ford handles all aspects of litigated matters, from pre-suit discovery through trial. He is experienced in personal injury matters, motor vehicle/trucking accidents, injuries on property, products liability, and construction accidents. He represents individuals in all New York State Courts and in Federal Court, the Western District of New York.Attorney Ford was recently named a 2014 Rising Star for General Litigation, as named by Super Lawyers magazine.Attorney Ford received his J.D. from the University of Buffalo Law School in 2004. While attending law school, Attorney Ford was actively involved with the University's National Trial Team Program, earning Finalist awards as a member of the National Trial Competition and Texas Young Lawyer's Association teams. He earned his undergraduate degree from Canisius College where he played goaltender for the Golden Griffins' Soccer Team and was a walk-on guard for the Men's Basketball Team.Currently, Attorney Ford is a member of the Bar Association of Erie County and New York State Bar Association. He serves as an instructor and coaching assistant for the University of Buffalo Law School Trial Team and is a board member for the Northwest Community Mental Health Facility. In the past, Attorney Ford served as a radio color commentator for the Canisius College Men's Basketball Team on 710 AM.

Jeffrey Kingsley is the co-chair of the firm’s Global Insurance Services Practice Group and oversees a team of 65 attorneys, handling matters from cybersecurity to extra-contractual bad faith litigation. He maintains an international practice that focuses on matters involving complex insurance and reinsurance coverage, commercial and regulatory issues, and extra-contractual liability arbitration and litigation. Specifically, he has extensive experience handling and consulting clients on complex allocation issues, regulatory issues, arbitrations, transactional issues, and disputes involving the eco bad faith exposure across the country.. Jeff routinely provides comprehensive legal representation for Fortune 500 companies, insurers, reinsurers, and other businesses to help them manage risk at every stage of business and protect their interests when disputes may arise. He works with clients during the developmental phase of business relationships to analyze agreements, develop potential strategies to reduce liability exposure, and identify issues that may impede growth such as threats to a company’s reputation or intellectual property rights.. Jeff currently serves as national litigation and regulatory counsel for several companies, including one of the largest companies providing vehicle service contracts and extended insurance warranties for both commercial and personal vehicles. In that role, he handles the resolution of coverage claims and disputes with dealers, producers, and competitors, including representing the company in litigation and arbitration, drafting reinsurance agreements to create captive reinsurance companies, assisting with the drafting of vehicle service contracts and warranties, and counseling on a range of regulatory matters such as advertising regulations. Jeff’s recent experience also involves consulting with one of the world’s top auto manufacturers in the development of a national program.. Drawing on his extensive background in environmental law, Jeff represents individuals and companies in matters regarding claims of property contamination and other environmental issues. He has handled cases involving the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and other federal and state regulations. His experience includes representing a wine producer in a salt contamination claim and assisting the Department of Justice’s Environmental Enforcement Division in drafting its position relative to compliance-related issues regarding coal facilities.. Jeff lectures and writes extensively on emerging issues in the insurance and reinsurance industry. In 2013, he co-authored the "Duties of Reinsurers" chapter in the New Appleman on Insurance Law Library Edition. He also regularly presents on extra-contractual exposure, multiple claimant, and insufficient claims at insurance conferences across the world.. At Goldberg Segalla, Jeff is co-editor of the Reinsurance Review, a monthly international publication that provides timely summaries of and access to the latest worldwide reinsurance law developments, as well as the co-editor of the Insurance and Reinsurance Report blog.

Jason Botticelli is an experienced litigator who concentrates his practice on product liability and toxic tort matters. He defends clients in state and federal courts against asbestos exposure claims and claims involving premises, construction site, automotive, and elevator and escalator liability. Jason frequently represents manufacturers, doctors and hospitals, municipalities, and companies sued under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.. Jason serves on the Board of the Better Business Bureau and has as served as an arbitrator for the BBB Auto Line, Commercial Resolution, and New York Fee Resolution programs. He is the co-editor of Goldberg Segalla's award-winning Asbestos Case Tracker, which in 2016 and 2018 was named to the ABA Journal's prestigious Blawg 100 and named the Best Litigation Blog for 2016 and 2017 by the Expert Institute in its annual legal blog contest. He has also contributed to Goldberg Segalla's popular Timely Notice podcast, discussing e-cigarettes and other trends in liability-related litigation.

I am an experienced plaintiff's personal injury attorney who has been practicing law for 30 years. Over these years I have talked to many women who, after being injured in an auto accident or due to the negligence of others, had retained other personal injury attorneys. The issue raised most often was their lack of personal connection with the male attorneys with whom they had dealt, even when they were pleased with the outcome of their cases.. While the gender of a personal injury lawyer should not affect the outcome of your case, it is important that you are comfortable with the attorney representing you. As a female personal injury attorney, I feel that women in Western NY need to know that they have the option of speaking with someone who sees their perspective and understands what they are going through after they have sustained an accident-related, potentially life altering, injury as a mother, daughter, wife, sister and/or businesswoman. That is why at Gelber & O'Connell we have worked hard to ensure that we have experienced, dedicated female personal injury attorneys.. Gelber & O'Connell has both the experience to help you with your personal injury claims and female attorneys to discuss a woman's very personal issues. Also, like our page on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

I am a trial attorney licensed to practice law in the states of New York and North Carolina.

Groomed to be an insurance coverage attorney reading William Safire's On Language column in the New York Times growing up in northern New Jersey and Rockland County, New York. Practice includes insurance coverage analysis and litigation, first-party property, fraud and arson defense work for numerous property and casualty insurers on a state-wide and regional basis. Has successfully litigated and tried numerous insurance fraud and coverage cases for insurers through trial and appeal in New York and writes and speaks regularly for insurers and adjusters on various issues relating to insurance coverage, fraud, “bad faith” and the defense of first- and third-party claims.. Analysis and litigation of complex first- and third-party coverage matters. Investigation and defense of insurance claims suspected to be fraudulent.

Concentrating her practice in toxic tort insurance defense, Jessica works extensively with defendants alleged to have sold "asbestos-containing components" and provides experienced legal advice to a wide range of asbestos clients. These include equipment and friction manufacturers and retailers. This work involves coordinating a team of attorneys and paralegals in managing discovery and preparing cases for trial in high volume, document intensive cases. Jessica handles all aspects of non-asbestos litigation including other product liability matters, motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, labor law injuries, coverage litigation, and dog bite claims. Jessica has tried one bench trial to a directed verdict and second chaired two jury trials to verdict. On a more individual level, Jessica works as an Attorney for the Child, and represents parents in custody, visitation, and neglect/abuse cases in Family Court. Over a decade in Family Court has afforded numerous, numerous opportunities for trials.. Jessica reviews each case details individually and tries to identify early cases that could be problematic. She prepares each case for trial, in the event it is necessary, but finds effective and cost-efficient solutions to cases wherever possible. Jessica is always focusing on the details, while keeping the larger goals in mind.. Jessica is a member of the Defense Research Institute (DRI), Claims and Litigation Management Alliance (CLM), Niagara and Erie County Bar Associations, the New York State Bar Association, and the Bar Association of the Tonawandas (former President). She is admitted to the State Bar of New York as well as the United States District Court (Western and Northern), and Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of New York. Jessica presented at the DRI Asbestos Medicine Seminar in Las Vegas in November, 2011; New Orleans in November 2013; San Francisco in November 2014; and Las Vegas in 2017. She is looking forward to presenting at DRI Asbestos Medicine Seminar in Austin, Texas this coming November. Jessica serves as the marketing chair for DRI Asbestos Medicine Seminar. She was named a Rising Star Super Lawyer five consecutive years, from 2014-2018.. A native of Buffalo, Jessica is a graduate of the Nichols School, Canisius College, and University at Buffalo Law School. In her spare time, Jessica teaches ballet and has coordinated groups of high school dancers to perform at the Walt Disney World Resort.