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Movers & Shakers
Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP has announced that insurance recovery litigators Jerold Oshinsky and Linda Kornfeld are joining the firm's insurance recovery group as partners and will launch the firm's Los Angeles office. The move reunites them with Robin Cohen, their partner at a previous firm and the leader of Kasowitz's insurance recovery group. Kornfeld will serve as head of Kasowitz's Los Angeles office.
Kasowitz's insurance recovery group focuses exclusively on policyholder recovery claims.
Oshinsky and Kornfeld have worked with a variety of companies in, among others, the chemical, pharmaceutical, financial, food, education and health industries, litigating complex insurance coverage issues and advising clients about how to maximize their insurance assets. Recently, they have been focusing on issues relating to cyber liability, intellectual property, antitrust and sexual abuse claims, as well as natural disaster cases related to earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, tornadoes and superstorms such as Superstorm Sandy.
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Kasowitz's insurance recovery group focuses exclusively on policyholder recovery claims.
Oshinsky and Kornfeld have worked with a variety of companies in, among others, the chemical, pharmaceutical, financial, food, education and health industries, litigating complex insurance coverage issues and advising clients about how to maximize their insurance assets. Recently, they have been focusing on issues relating to cyber liability, intellectual property, antitrust and sexual abuse claims, as well as natural disaster cases related to earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, tornadoes and superstorms such as Superstorm Sandy.
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