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Lloyd Gura

Position

Lloyd Gura is a partner and member of the firm’s Executive Committee and DEI Committee. He has more than thirty years of experience in reinsurance, insurance, ERISA, environmental, tort, and healthcare litigation and arbitration. His practice includes complex insurance and reinsurance coverage disputes, fronting, captive and program business, subrogation, fraud, life and health claims, bad faith, property and casualty losses, directors and officers, errors and omissions, and all facets of professional liability claims, personal injury claims, premises liability, allocation disputes, insolvency issues, molestation, talc, concussion, human trafficking, advertising injury, copyright infringement, cyber claims, Bermuda Form arbitrations, construction defect coverage, and claims involving asbestos products and non-products.

Mr. Gura has published articles in Best’s Review, Business Insurance, New York Law Journal, CPCU Claims Quarterly, Journal of Reinsurance, and the Risk Management Newsletter regarding insurance and reinsurance issues. Mr. Gura created and chairs the annual NYC Reinsurance Conference and lectures at seminars sponsored by AIRROC, ARIAS-US, IRUA, Mealey’s, American Conference Institute, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Reinsurance Association of America, HB Litigation Conferences, Perrin Conferences, AIG, AXA XL, Zurich, Chubb, The Hartford, R&Q, ACE, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Riverstone, Swiss Re, and Gen Re, among others, on insurance and reinsurance law and practice. He has tried numerous cases in state and federal courts throughout the United States and participated in more than two hundred reinsurance/insurance arbitrations in the United States and London, UK.

He is admitted to the New York and Connecticut Bars and is a member of the New York County Lawyers’ Association, where he is a member of the Committee on Insurance, and the New York State Bar Association.

Career

Member, Firm's Executive Committee Chambers USA, 2018-2024: "Lloyd is a go-to attorney and highly capable of handling the most complex matters in an efficient manner." "He is well informed, smart and he understands the law." "He is a well-respected and well thought-of lawyer." "Very detail-oriented." "Has expertise representing insurers in a range of coverage litigation, including environmental, mass tort and healthcare-related disputes. He also has experience handling reinsurance arbitration matters." "He is extremely responsive and very practical," "He goes to great lengths to understand our business and the types of issues that we face, and to weigh up the business risks." "Maintains a respected carrier-side disputes practice and counts premier insurance companies among his clients.” "He is exemplary in the way he works and is highly practical and creative in finding resolutions." “One of the reasons I’ve worked with Lloyd for so long is that he’s able to understand what my business objectives are.” Who’s Who Legal: Insurance and Reinsurance, 2017-2024: "Mr. Gura is an excellent insurance and reinsurance lawyer." "Mr. Gura is a great representative and a formidable name in the insurance and reinsurance market. His enviable practice sees him assist clients with a broad range of complex matters." Super Lawyers, New York Metro, Insurance Coverage, 2010-2024 Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyers Euromoney's Expert Guides - Top Insurance & Reinsurance Practitioner, 2015-2021 America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, 2020 New York's Leading Lawyers Guide, Leaders in the Law, 2018-2020 America's Top 100 Bet-the-Company Litigators® for New York City, 2019 LexisNexis Insurer Attorney of the Year, 2008

Memberships

Journal Of Reinsurance, Advisory Panel member Insurance and Reinsurance Underwriters Association Board Member New York State Bar Association New York County Lawyers’ Association, Committee on Insurance Nassau County Bar Association AIDA Reinsurance and Insurance Society (ARIAS-US)

Education

J.D., Brooklyn Law School, 1990 B.A., State University of New York, Binghamton, 1987

New York, 1991 Connecticut, 1990 U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

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