Joseph P. Monteleone

PRACTICE FOCUS
Joseph Monteleone has more than 30 years of experience in the insurance arena, both in the private practice of law and as an insurance company claims executive. He represents various insurers in coverage litigation, regulatory matters and arbitrations, as well as provides coverage advice and monitoring of underlying litigation in the areas of professional liability, errors and omissions (E&O), directors and officers (D&O), employment practices liability (EPL) and other claims-made insurance products.

Joe drafts policy forms and endorsement language, as well as provides legal consulting services, to a wide variety of specialty lines insurers. In addition, he provides expert witness testimony on issues of coverage and bad faith allegations and serves as arbitrator or mediator in a variety of disputes involving insurance and reinsurance coverage.

Joe is a recognized and acclaimed authority in his field, whose legal opinion is regularly sought out by those in the media.

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
He often handles complex and high exposure insurance coverage disputes for client insurers, including many involving securities class actions with total dollar exposures in the hundreds of millions and client policy limits at stake. He recently achieved a major win for a D&O insurer on a coverage matter litigated in California, as well as several matters in which he helped arrange settlements that did not require contributions from his client’s layer of insurance. In addition, he has handled numerous coverage disputes involving lawyers’ and other professional liability policies and has drafted state of the art insurance policies for clients in the area of D&O and professional liability.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Joe joined Tressler as a partner in May 2006. Previously, he was a partner in the New York office of Duane Morris LLP. Prior to returning to private practice in 2005, he served in claims executive positions for 20 years at insurers with wide-ranging responsibilities for D&O, professional liability, fidelity, healthcare and other specialty lines. Joe started his insurance career in 1980 in the areas of toxic tort and environmental exposure claims.

He has been cited for excellence in Chambers USA America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. He has also been named to New York - Metro Super Lawyers® list by New York Super Lawyers – Metro magazine in the areas of Insurance Coverage and Alternative Dispute Resolution.