About the Authors

Daniel W. Gerber is a partner of Goldberg Segalla LLP in New York . He maintains an international practice in commercial litigation with a focus on complex insurance coverage disputes and analysis, including reinsurance and excess insurance, as well as mediation and arbitration. He chairs his firm’s Life, Health, Disability and ERISA practice group and manages its Insurance Coverage practice group. He is an author for the renowned Insurance Treatise, New Appleman's Insurance Law Practice Guide, as well as Mealey’s Emerging Insurance Disputes. Mr. Gerber is admitted to the United States Supreme Court, as well as all federal and state courts in New York and Pennsylvania . He argues regularly before the New York Court of Appeals and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals – arguing the seminal case in New York on late notice in insurance law. He has received the Chairperson of the Year Award for his work as Chair of the Insurance Coverage Committee for the New York State Bar Association’s Torts, Insurance and Compensation Law Section, and will chair the almost 3,500 member Torts, Insurance and Compensation Law Section in 2008. Mr. Gerber is also an active member of the Association of Life Insurance Counsel, the International Claims Association and the International Association of Defense Counsel, as well as the American Bar Association’s Life, Health and Disability Committees. Mr. Gerber possesses an AV rating from Martindale Hubbell, a Super Lawyer designation from Law & Politics Magazine, and has been named consecutively by his peers to Business First's Who's Who in Law.