Michael P. Kandler

Mike is a leading practitioner in the field of insurance coverage litigation. He has represented insurance carriers in numerous insurance coverage disputes involving commercial general liability coverage, commercial excess coverage, professional liability coverage, directors and officers liability coverage, and personal lines coverage. He has extensive experience in the representation of insurance carriers in coverage disputes involving property claims, construction defect claims, product liability claims, and advertising injury coverage.

• In 2009, Mike successfully argued the appeal in Sport Rock International, Inc. v. American Cas. Co. of Reading, PA, a seminal case regarding coverage allocation and the interpretation of other insurance clauses.

• Author, “Law on Claims for Bad Faith Denials of Liability Coverage Still Unsettled,” New York Law Journal, Vol. 247, No. 118, June 20, 2012
• Co-Author, “The Thorny Path Through Undue Familiarity Claims,” Professional Liability Underwriting Society Journal, May 2, 2002, Vol. XV, No. 5

• Presenter, “Bad Faith Considerations in the Coverage Denial,” ExecuSummit Bad Faith Litigation, Uncasville, CT, November 7, 2017
• Presenter, “Intercompany Bad Faith Claims,” ExecuSummit Bad Faith Claims & Litigation Strategies, Uncasville, CT, November 1, 2016
• Presenter, “Bad Faith Litigation Strategies,” 3rd Annual Bad Faith Litigation Strategies ExecuSummit, Hartford, CT, November 3, 2015
• Presenter, “The Erosion of the Attorney-Client Privilege and Other Discovery Issues in Bad Faith Litigation,” Bad Faith Litigation Strategies ExecuSummit, May 5, 2015
• Co-Chair and Presenter, “Bad Faith First Party Third Party Coverage Denials,” 1st Annual Bad Faith Litigation Strategies ExecuSummit, Uncasville, CT, November 4-5, 2014
• Presenter, “The Professional Liability Exclusion and the Sexual Abuse Exclusion in Personal Lines Policies,” NYSBA CLE, Advanced Insurance Coverage, 2012
• Presenter: “What Constitutes Other Insurance?” 2010 Insurance Coverage Update: NYSBA CLE, Insurance Coverage Issues in the Commercial General Liability Policy —Emerging Issues for the Next Decade, July 2010