Jason P. Minkin is a partner who serves as coverage and litigation counsel to domestic and international insurers and reinsurers.
Jason represents insurers in matters involving professional liability coverage, including D&O, E&O, Healthcare, and EPL coverage. He regularly counsels insurers in matters involving securities fraud, shareholder derivative liability, insurance broker liability, investment adviser liability, and employment practices liability. He also handles a wide range of managed care and healthcare matters involving GL, D&O, E&O, EPL, Fiduciary and Cyber exposures arising from healthcare providers and facilities, as well as other general liability matters.
Jason represents insurers and reinsurers in disputes in state and federal courts across the country and regularly participates in domestic and international arbitrations. He also advises insurers on claims handling practices, underwriting, policy drafting, new product development, and topical issues concerning the insurance community.
Jason has also represented clients in numerous maritime liability matters and has published extensively on topical marine insurance and maritime liability issues, including the enforcement of foreign arbitration clauses in Protection & Indemnity Club Rules, the scope of available damages under the Jones Act and the general maritime law, the nature and scope of Maintenance and Cure obligations, and the contractual right to an examination under oath in marine property damage investigations and the protections afforded to the policyholder under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Jason received his LL.M. in Admiralty from Tulane Law School. He is a member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States, where he serves on the Marine Insurance and General Average Committee.
Representative Matters |
Evanston Insurance Company v. Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, Case No. 19-CV-4193 (N.D. Ill.) RLI Insurance Company v. Acclaim Resource Partners, LLC, Case No. 17-MR-710 (Ill. Cir. Ct.) AXIS Surplus Ins. Co. v. Geringer, Case No. 14-cv-00244 (D. Utah) Represented U.S. insurer in interpleader action over competing claims for amounts in excess of Side A D&O policy limits. Troy Lillie v. Stanford Trust Company, Case No. 13-3127 (N.D. Tex.) Defended Bermudian excess E&O insurer in direct action lawsuit YRC Worldwide, Inc. v. XL Insurance (Bermuda) Ltd., Case No. 11-cv-2534 (D. Kan.) Defended Bermudian insurer in a declaratory judgment and breach of contract action seeking coverage under an EPL policy. Allied World National Assurance Company v. James A. Knight, Case No. 09 CH 27403 (Ill. Cir. Ct.) Filed declaratory judgment action on behalf of U.S. insurer seeking a finding of no coverage under primary D&O policy. TOUSA, Inc. v. Federal Ins. Co., 09-02281 (S.D. Fla.) Defended Bermudian insurer in declaratory judgment action seeking coverage under Side A D&O policy. Frank Andrew Dunn v. Chubb Insurance Company of Canada, Case No. 5043/06 (Ontario Super. Ct.) Defended Bermudian and U.S. insurers in declaratory judgment action seeking coverage under D&O policies. |