FLEISCHNER POTASH - Key Persons
Adam Stark, the firm's Managing Partner, has successfully represented insurers in a broad range of complex insurance coverage matters in state and federal courts as well as in private arbitrations and mediations. He has handled a variety of defense cases including construction defect, environmental liability, professional liability, property and casualty coverage and bad faith litigation. Adam has successfully represented clients in the New Jersey Appellate Court as well as the New Jersey Supreme Court.
Alexandra Rigney is a partner of Fleischner Potash, where she is a member of the firm's insurance coverage group. She represents domestic and Lloyd's of London insurers in complex insurance coverage disputes, providing coverage opinions and handling litigation, mediation and arbitration. Ms. Rigney also defends insureds against professional liability claims, with a focus on attorney and insurance broker malpractice, and employment and civil rights claims. Ms. Rigney was selected to Super Lawyers Rising Stars for Insurance Coverage in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 and has an AV Rating, the highest rating, from Martindale Hubbell.
Practice Areas
Appeals Personal Injury and Property Damage Liability Defense Product Liability
Alisa Dultz is an accomplished litigator with over 30 years of experience in both the state and appellate courts. She has been a trusted advocate for her insurance and construction clients and her formidable brief writing skills and legal acumen serve as valuable assets to trial and appellate counsel.
Prior to joining the firm, Alisa was a Law Clerk to the Honorable John M. Cannella, United States Snr. District Court Judge of the SDNY and an Adjunct Professor at St. John's University School of law. While at St. John's Law, where she graduated magna cum laude, she served as an Editor of the Law Review. Alisa is also a proud graduate of Cornell University.
Ann Marie C. Petrey focuses on insurance coverage nationwide and brings to her clients a combination of experience in both law firms and within the insurance industry. She has in-depth experience in representing U.S. and international clients in sophisticated insurance and reinsurance matters from a legal, contract wording, claims management, risk management, and regulatory/compliance perspective.
She started her career at an international law firm where her diverse practice included litigation and claims management as well as insurance, reinsurance, corporate, and regulatory matters. Ann Marie also worked at a U.S. commercial property and casualty insurer as a Claims Manager and Counsel. Thereafter, Ann Marie was Director of Contract Wording at a major reinsurance underwriting manager. She has also lectured on insurance-related topics for the American Conference Institute.
Practice Areas
Casualty Insurance Coverage Marine/Inland Marine Insurance Professional Liability/Errors and Omissions/Directors and Officers Property
Brian is a graduate of Rutgers Law School, Newark, New Jersey, where he served as Managing Editor for the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, Nuremberg Section. While in law school, Brian worked as a judicial intern to the Hon. Rochelle Gizinski in Ocean County and was a student attorney in the Rutgers Law Housing Justice and Solidarity Clinic, representing residents of Essex County in various landlord-tenant disputes.
Dan is an experienced trial attorney and has obtained numerous defense verdicts, as well as favorable pre-verdict results on behalf of his clients at various stages of trial. He has participated in more than 100 mediations and arbitrations, and countless depositions and examinations under oath.
Deanna Hazen's practice focuses on the defense of negligence-based lawsuits involving complex construction accidents, premises liability and security, and automobile and trucking accidents. Her practice involves both personal injury and property damage claims in the State of New York. Deanna has significant experience representing owners and contractors in construction site litigation involving New York State Labor Law, representing property owners and commercial tenants in matters of premises liability, and representing companies with vehicles involved in motor vehicle accidents.
In her representation, Deanna seeks to provide thorough and discerning analysis of the claim and early resolution through mediation, motion practice and negotiating settlements.
Dharman Niles focuses his practice on liability insurance coverage and complex litigation matters at the trial and appellate levels. Dharman also handles much of the firm's Connecticut practice, including insurance coverage litigation and civil defense.
Dharman has practiced in both New York and Connecticut, working on a variety of issues ranging from commercial litigation to business transactions. As a law student, Dharman served as the Student Director of the Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Center, where he organized and ran several conferences and symposiums on human rights and humanitarian law-related subjects. Dharman was also a staff writer for the Human Rights Brief - a student-published newsletter covering human rights campaigns around the globe.
Eric Leibowitz has extensive experience in coverage and commercial litigation nationwide. He has experience in all phases of litigation, ranging from complaint to motion practice to discovery to appeal. His practice also encompasses providing coverage opinions on first-party property coverage, including fine arts insurance, and liability coverage. He has represented clients in a wide variety of industries, including entertainment, pharmaceutical, insurance, technology and shipping. He also has several years of experience working as an intellectual property litigator for White & Case.
Mr. Leibowitz has written articles and taught a CLE class on a wide variety of insurance-related issues.