Steven E. Sigalow (Steve)
Partner
Cleveland
Tel: 1.216.586.7105
Fax: 1.216.579.0212
Email:
sesigalow@jonesday.com
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Steve Sigalow is a leading insurance coverage lawyer, having recovered on behalf of corporate policyholders more than half a billion dollars in settlements and judgments. Most recently, he successfully led the litigation on behalf of Brush Wellman against its London insurers that established key principles of Ohio coverage law and, in a separate tort action for bad faith, challenged the formation, operation, and claims-handling practices of Equitas, the company established to handle the pre-1993 liabilities of Underwriters at Lloyd's of London. Also recently, in one of the largest insurance coverage actions then pending, he successfully led the litigation on behalf of a major manufacturer against its domestic and foreign insurers recovering more than $100 million in excess of policy limits for claims arising out of the policyholder's consumer product recall.
Steve has successfully litigated on behalf of large corporate policyholders in state and federal courts throughout the country and has arbitrated claims in the U.S. and in the United Kingdom. He has in-depth experience with the difficult issues arising under property/casualty and financial lines coverage forms, including CGL, excess/umbrella, property, D&O/management liability, E&O, and fiduciary liability.
Steve also has successfully led these additional major coverage litigations:
• multisite, multicase environmental coverage litigation that recovered for client more than $100 million for breach of contract and bad faith
• confidential arbitration that recovered for client policy limits for claim arising under blanket crime policy
• environmental coverage litigation on behalf of local government that recovered the full costs of remediating groundwater contamination at a county landfill
• multisite environmental coverage litigation on behalf of utility company that recovered past and future remediation costs for cleanup of former manufactured gas plants
• confidential arbitration that recovered the damages incurred by client from the insurer's administration of client's liability and workers' compensation programs
• currently leading the Firm's representation of large industrial company in major D&O litigation arising out of the company's restatement of financial results
• currently leading the Firm's representation of country's largest medical malpractice insurer in litigation with its reinsurer
• currently leading the Firm's representation of regional utility company in arbitration against its insurers for breach of fiduciary liability policies and
• currently leading the Firm's representation of large industrial company in major asbestos coverage action.
Steve is a member of the American Bar Association (Litigation Section and Committee on Insurance Coverage Litigation), the Ohio State Bar Association, and the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association.
Admitted
Ohio
Education
Case Western Reserve University (J.D. 1975; Order of the Coif; Law Review); The Ohio State University (B.A. summa cum laude 1972; Phi Beta Kappa)