Contact Us Today Dan D. Kohane SENIOR MEMBER ddk@hurwitzfine.com 716-849-8942 716-445-2258 Mr. Kohane is a nationally recognized insurance coverage counselor who conducts extensive training, consultation and in-house seminars on this highly specialized practice. For over 30 years, he has served as Adjunct Professor of Insurance Law at the University at Buffalo Law School. Mr. Kohane is also known in the industry for his comprehensive newsletter, Coverage Pointers, a bi-weekly publication summarizing important insurance coverage decisions in New York State courts with overviews of other jurisdictions. A senior member at Hurwitz & Fine, P.C., Mr. Kohane has distinguished himself in managing the ever-evolving area of insurance coverage serving regional, national and international clients. An accomplished trial lawyer and litigator, Mr. Kohane is also active behind the scenes, advising clients on a broad range of matters involving litigation including insurance coverage, bad faith, tort defense and professional ethics. Mr. Kohane also has extensive experience mediating complex casualty and insurance coverage disputes and serves on the American Arbitration Association Complex Coverage Neutral Evaluation Panel and Commercial Arbitration panels. He has also recently been appointed and certified to the panel of Federal Mediators in the Western District of New York. In 2017, Mr. Kohane was selected as a member of the American Law Institute, an organization of nationally prominent judges, lawyers, and law professors who work together to produce scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and improve the law. Mr. Kohane is immediate past President and currently serves as Board Chair of the National Foundation for Judicial Excellence, a non-profit organization which provides educational programming and support for state appellate judges. He is a past president of the highly selective Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel (FDCC) and past president of the FDCC Foundation. He has also served on the Board of Directors of DRI, serves on its Insurance Law Steering Committee and served as program chair for its Insurance Coverage and Practice Symposium and as Co-Editor in Chief of its Reservation of Rights Compendium. He was a founding member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Coverage and Extracontractual Counsel. Mr. Kohane is an AV-Rated lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell, a Top 50 New York Super Lawyer in Upstate New York and has been listed in Best Lawyers in America since 2009 where he was named Lawyer of the Year in Insurance Law for 2017. A frequent resource for journal and newspaper articles, he lectures widely on insurance coverage and tort issues. He heads the firm’s Insurance Coverage and Extra Contractual Liability, Class Actions/Mass Torts and ADR practice groups. The first recipient of the Young Lawyer’s Award from the Insurance, Negligence and Compensation Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, he was also honored with the Section’s John E. Leach Memorial Award for Outstanding Service and Distinguished Contributions to the Legal Profession. Mr. Kohane is a member of the Torts, Insurance, Compensation and Municipal Law Sections of the New York State Bar Association, a member of the Erie County Bar Association and the Western New York Trial Lawyers Association and is a past president of the Erie County Bar Foundation. Mr. Kohane is a graduate of the University at Buffalo Law School and received his under-graduate degree, magna cum laude, from the State University of New York at New Paltz. Dan D. 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View Reported Decisions PRACTICE GROUPS Alternative Dispute Resolution Appellate Practice Extra-Contractual Consequential Damages & Bad Faith Analysis Insurance Coverage Counsel No-Fault/SUM Arbitration Toxic Tort/Environmental Law Insurance Coverage & Extracontractual Liability Child Victims Act and Sexual Misconduct Coverage and Defense COURT ADMISSIONS Courts of the State of New York United States District Court - Western District of New York - Northern District of New York - Southern District of New York - Eastern District of New York United States 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ADMITTED TO PRACTICE New York Foreign Legal Consultant Ontario, Canada EDUCATION University at Buffalo Law School (J.D., 1979) State University of New York at New Paltz (B.A., 1975) PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION Martindale-Hubbell AV Peer Review Rated Lawyer Best Lawyers in America (Insurance Coverage and Commercial Litigation) Upstate New York Super Lawyers Top 10 Business First Legal Elite of WNY Euromoney Guide to World’s Leading Insurance & Reinsurance Lawyers PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Bar Association of Erie County New York State Bar Association University at Buffalo Law School Adjunct Professor of Insurance Law Defense Research Institute Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel American College of Coverage and Extracontractual Counsel Association of Defense Trial Attorneys American Law Institute COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS Housing Opportunities Made Equal, Inc. 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