Leonard S. Surdyk
Attorney at Surdyk & Baker
New York, New York
- Surdyk & Baker in the New York City office
- More than 25 years of experience in representing clients in complex commercial disputes
- Extensive litigation and insurance coverage experience in directors and officers, employment practices liability, and insurance companies professional liability insurance matters as well as other professional liability and general liability matters
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- Surdyk & Baker in the New York City office
- More than 25 years of experience in representing clients in complex commercial disputes
- Extensive litigation and insurance coverage experience in directors and officers, employment practices liability, and insurance companies professional liability insurance matters as well as other professional liability and general liability matters
- Lead counsel in litigated coverage cases involving issues of late notice, claims made and reported, rescission, dishonesty exclusions, personal profit exclusions, employment-related exclusions, consent to settle, insured versus insured exclusions, other insurance clauses, allocation, definition of claim, uninsurability, cooperation clauses, statutory bad faith, common law bad faith, punitive damages and various other policy clauses
- Drafted policies and applications for directors and officers policies, employment practice policies, errors and omissions policies, media liability policies, food borne illness policies, and reinsurance treaties
- Frequent lecturer on trial practice issues, professional liability issues and insurance coverage topics
- Co-writer of The EPL Book: A Practical Guide To Employment Practices Liability And Insurance, published in 1997
- Co-writer of three text books: Directors & Officers Liability Insurance; Professional Liability Insurance Non-Medical; and Professional Liability Insurance Medical, published by the Professional Liability Underwriting Society in 1992
- J.D. degree, The University of Illinois College of Law at Champaign-Urbana; B.S. degree, Loyola University of Chicago
- Can be contacted at 212-616-7058 or [email protected]