Lee M. Epstein

A civil litigator and trial lawyer, Lee M. Epstein serves as Chair of the firm's Insurance Counseling and Recovery Practice Group. He represents corporate and individual policyholders in recovering insurance in response to an array of hazards (including, asbestos, cyber, environmental, hearing loss, intellectual property, privacy and product liabilities) and catastrophic property and business interruption losses. In that capacity, Lee advises market leaders in the airline, chemical, construction, financial services, food, HVAC&R, packaging, retail and satellite television industries. He is currently litigating insurance coverage disputes throughout the state and federal courts of the United States.

A frequent lecturer and author, Lee is a regular contributor for the Insurance Authority Expert Analysis section of Law360 and speaks and writes on a variety of insurance and litigation topics, including:

• Insurance In The Time of COVID-19: Will Insurance Play A Role In The Recovery? (Flaster Greenberg, October 2020)
• Maximizing Insurance Coverage and Federal Grants for Covid-19 Business Losses, (PRHTA, April 2020)
• Recovering from Covid-19 Insurance Coverage and Federal Grants, (Perrin Conferences April 2020)
• Depositions 101: Best Practices For Acquitting Yourself And Representing Your Company (RIMS 2019)
• Three’s A Crowd: Understanding and Optimizing an Insurer’s Duty to Defend (RIMS 2017)
• Loose Lips Sink ships: Effective Communication For Policyholders, Insurers and Brokers (RIMS 2017)
• MIND THE GAP: Identifying and Closing Gaps in Your Insurance Program (RIMS 2016)
• ’E’ Is For Discovery: Negotiating the Morass of Electronic Discovery (RIMS 2010)
• Three’s Company: Adventures in the Tripartite Relationship (RIMS 2010)

• Secured an eight figure settlement in response to a product recall
• Secured appellate affirmance of a trial court’s ruling that an insurer is obligated to defend underlying asbestos cases entirely rather paying only for a pro rata portion of defense costs
• Successfully argued the appeal on behalf of a satellite television provider in a patent infringement insurance coverage case
• Resolved a cyber-insurance dispute involving a computer fraud perpetrated on a multi-national telecommunications company
• Successfully tried and then secured appellate victory in a hearing loss insurance coverage case on behalf of a multi-national sugar refiner
• Secured a jury verdict on behalf of condominium association in response to insurer’s denial of coverage for a multimillion dollar personal injury claim
• Successfully tried an environmental insurance coverage case on behalf of a major financial institution
• Secured an insurer-provided defense for a satellite television provider in connection with an underlying lawsuit commenced by the United States 2 and four state governments under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and other statutes governing unsolicited communications

• Named a Pennsylvania "Super Lawyer"by Thomson Reuters, publishers of Pennsylvania Super Lawyers  

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• American Bar Association, Member 
• New York State Bar Association, Member
• Pennsylvania Bar Association, Member
• American College of Coverage Counsel, Fellow