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Jennifer Green

PHOTOGRAPHER & CO-FOUNDER

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Alex Redder

PROGRAMMER & CO-FOUNDER

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Mark L. Friedman

As senior trial partner, Mark Friedman has been litigating insurance-related cases for over 35 years. During this time, he has successfully protected policyholders against false claims of arson and fraud in hundreds of jury trials in state and federal court. He has also assisted countless disabled individuals in obtaining disability benefits which were wrongfully withheld by insurance carriers, including UnumProvident and Paul Revere. As an outgrowth of this practice, Mr. Friedman also pursues class actions against insurance carriers for widespread abuses against the public at large. He was lead counsel in a novel class action where

State Farm was  found  to  have  improperly  withheld “profit  and  overhead” in their  payment of policyholders’ losses, depriving countless insureds of benefits which  they  paid  for  when they purchased their policies. He is currently lead counsel in a class action against Tri-State Consumers Insurance Company for unethical claims abuses involving its policyholders. Mr. Friedman has also successfully represented the New York State Public Adjusters Association in lawsuits and appeals on vital issues ranging from insurers’ improper attempts at expanding policy exclusions and definitions and limiting consequential damages to the carriers’ efforts at refusing payment to innocent co-insureds. In 2013, he was also successful in having the Court of Appeals expand the contractual limitations period beyond 2 years in situations where it is impossible for a policyholder to complete repairs in that period. Executive Plaza v. Peerless Ins. Co.

In 2008, Mark authored the winning appellate brief on behalf of the consumer’s perspective in the landmark case of Bi-Economy Market, Inc. v. Harleysville Ins. Co. In that case, New York’s highest court upheld the right of policyholders to have their insurance companies investigate claims fairly, promptly and in good faith. When an insured suffers additional damages as a result of a carrier’s excessive delay or improper denial, insurers are now responsible for those consequential damages.

Mark Friedman has been involved as trial counsel in several multi-million  dollar verdicts and decisions and has obtained hard-fought awards of punitive damages  in several  of  them. His experience transcends trial advocacy to include appeals where he has authored and argued numerous appeals both for individual causes and on behalf of Amicus Curiae in insurance- related cases on behalf of the policyholder. He is also involved in North Carolina, Louisiana and Florida in an ongoing effort to protect policyholders’ rights arising out of hurricane and flood losses in those states. He is currently handling several multi-million dollar cases on Long Island arising out of Superstorm Sandy. Mr. Friedman is a graduate of Brooklyn Law School and began his career in criminal law providing  the rich underpinning of his present practice.

Jonathan J. Wilkofsky

Tel (212) 285-0510 Fax (212) 285-0531 299 Broadway, Suite 1700 New York, NY 10007 info@wfkclaw.com

Peer Rating
 5.0/5.0
AV® Preeminent
Practice Areas

  • Insurance Litigation
  • Insurance Bad Faith
  • Unfair Insurance Practice
  • Insurance Coverage

University  Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, B.S., 1979

Law School New York Law School, J.D., 1981

Admitted 1982, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; 1983, U.S. District Court, Western, Northern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1993, U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit

Born Brooklyn, New York, April 24, 1957

Biography

Author: The Treatise, "The Law and Procedure of Insurance Appraisal," 2003. Appointed Arbitrator by New York State Supreme Court on Insurance Matters. General Counsel and Executive Director, New York Public Adjusters Association, 1994—. Executive Director, New Jersey Bible Adjusters Association.


Reported Cases Westhampton Adult Home v. National Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, 105 AD2d 627 — ; Riordan v. Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Co., 977 F2 47 (2nd Cir. 1992); Atlas Assurance Co. of America d/b/a GRE Ins. Group v. Newark Center Building Co.

ISLN 902755176

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