Lee M. Epstein

Lee M. Epstein is a civil litigator and trial lawyer. For nearly thirty years, he has focused his practice on securing insurance recoveries for corporate and individual policyholders in response to all forms of liabilities as well as first-party and business interruption losses arising from catastrophic events and commercial crimes. In that capacity, he has represented market leaders in the satellite television, airline, chemical, financial, mining, food and HVAC&R industries. He is currently litigating insurance coverage disputes throughout the state and federal courts of the United States.

A frequent lecturer and author, Mr. Epstein publishes a widely-read blog on insurance coverage issues and speaks and writes on a variety of insurance and litigation topics, including:

• 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)
• 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)
• Double Trouble: Property Insurance and Concurrent Causation” (RIMS 2004)
• “Taming the Mass Tort Beast” (RIMS 2004)
• “Business Interruption: Lessons Learned at Ground Zero” (RIMS 2003)

• 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

• 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," 2013 - 2015, by Thomson Reuters, publishers of Pennsylvania Super Lawyers  

• American Bar Association
• New York State Bar Association
• Pennsylvania Bar Association
• American College of Coverage and Extra Contractual Counsel
• The Risk Management Society