Sharon Angelino
Partner
Sharon Angelino focuses her practice on complex insurance coverage, professional liability, commercial litigation, and general corporate law. A leader of the GIS New York Team, Sharon 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 and 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. In addition, Sharon serves a wide variety of corporate clients in a risk management capacity, identifying gaps in coverage and providing training. 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.
Industries
Experience Highlights
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.
Honors & Awards
Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating: AV Preeminent
Business First’s Who’s Who in Law
Upstate New York Super Lawyers, 2008–20
Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition
Admissions
- New York
- U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Northern, Southern, and Western Districts of New York
Education
- State University of New York at Buffalo Law School, J.D. 1994
- Canisius College, M.B.A., 1989 (Outstanding MBA Student Award)
- Canisius College, B.A., summa cum laude, 1987
Professional Affiliations
- Defense Research Institute: Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law, Lawyers’ Professionalism & Ethics and Medical Liability Committees
- New York State Bar Association
- Defense Trial Lawyers Association: Board of Directors
- Claims and Litigation Management Alliance (CLM)
Community Involvement
- Former Officer, Rebuilding Together of Greater Buffalo
- Former Chair, Older Adult Driver Rehabilitation Program Steering Committee
Publications & Events
- Quoted in “After Sandy, NY Insurers May Lose Favored Litigation Tool,”Law360, May 21, 2013
- Quoted in “Sandy Insurance Bill a Gift for Plaintiffs Bar,”Law360, March 12, 2013
- Co-Author, “Asset Managers Do Not Owe Fiduciary Duty to Note Holders,” Chartis Legal Insights, Fall 2012
- Co-Author, “The Devil’s In the Details: Practical Consequences of Medical Malpractice Reform,” International Claim Association, Winter 2009/2010
- Co-Author, “The Growing Authority of Arbitrators Under the Federal Arbitration Act,” PLUS Journal, July 2009
- Co-Author, “The Unsettling Nature of ‘Right to Consent’ Provisions,” Mealey’s Emerging Insurance Disputes, May 2008
- Co-Author, “When is an Insurer Entitled to Reimbursement of Defense Costs from its Insured?,” Mealey’s Emerging Insurance Disputes, January 2008
- Co-Presenter, “Preparing for the 2019 Hurricane Season: Weathering the Storm (Part 2 of 2),” GIS Webinar Series, July 30, 2019
- Co-Presenter, “Preparing for the 2019 Hurricane Season: Key Topics (Part 1 of 2),” GIS Webinar Series, June 25, 2019
- Presenter, “Construction Site Accidents: Law and Insurance,” Brown & Brown Lunch and Learn, June 19, 2018
- Presenter, “Additional Insured Issues,” 2008 Law School for Claims Professionals Seminar, NYSBA, September 2008
- Presenter, “Additional Insured Endorsement – How Much Trouble Can an Insurer Get Into for $100?,” NYSBA seminar entitled, “Can the Commercial General Liability Policy Survive?,” May 2008
- Co-Presenter, “Preparing for the 2019 Hurricane Season: Key Topics (Part 2 of 2),” GIS Webinar, July 30, 2019
- Co-Presenter, “Preparing for the 2019 Hurricane Season: Key Topics (Part 1 of 2),” GIS Webinar, June 26, 2019
- Co-Presenter, “Un-Ringing the Bell: Insurance Policy Rescission,” GIS Webinar, August 14, 2018
- Co-Presenter, “MCS 90 Endorsement,” GIS Webinar, May 15, 2018
- Presenter, “Minimizing Bad Faith Insurance Risks in First-Party Property Claims,” Strafford Webinar, December 12, 2017
- Contributor, “CGL Coverage for Construction Defects,” Timely Notice, May 24, 2018
Recent Insights
August 13, 2019