Tom is an experienced litigator and strategic advisor. He is known for tackling and resolving complex business insurance issues and disputes – whether through litigation, alternative dispute resolution, or by providing strategic and creative pre-litigation solutions for clients.
Tom represents companies in a wide range of high-stakes insurance coverage, bad faith/extracontractual, and commercial disputes in federal and state trial and appellate courts across the U.S. He also regularly represents clients in mediation and arbitration proceedings. Tom has deep experience counseling insurance clients on a wide range of complex first- and third-party coverage issues arising under various types of insurance policies, including professional liability, cyber, media-tech, directors and officers (D&O), environmental, kidnap and ransom, event cancellation, business interruption, marine, and commercial general liability. Tom also advises clients regarding claims-handling issues and regulatory compliance.
In the rapidly evolving cyber-exposure space, Tom counsels and represents insurers in their handling of first- and third-party claims arising from all manner of privacy and data security breaches, cyber extortion/ransomware, business email compromise, website tracking technology/pixels, and other cyber- and privacy-related exposures, including those involving companies' increasing use of artificial intelligence to provide products and services to the public.
Clients seek Tom's guidance on their most challenging coverage litigation and claims, including those involving catastrophic/systemic risk events. For example, Tom represented several major insurers at a national level on coverage and business-interruption issues ranging from seven to nine figures in the COVID-19 context, where Tom designed strategies for his clients to address highly sensitive and novel legal issues. Other more recent work includes counseling cyber insurers on their handling of certain risks with portfolio-wide implications.
Tom has seconded as a complex claims team leader for the cyber team of a leading London syndicate, an experience that gave him valuable insight into what clients need and expect from outside counsel.
Tom frequently gives in-house presentations to clients and hosts webinars regarding a variety of legal issues.