Cunningham, Grande, Kronberg and Voshtina join Kaufman Dolowich

Westchester, NY Partners Stephen Cunningham, Robert Grande, Howard Kronberg, and associate Belino Voshtina are joining Kaufman Dolowich’s office. The four join from Keidel & Cunningham and are recognized as leading the state in representing insurance brokers and agents.

“This group is the perfect complement to our practice and their client base and capabilities are well-aligned with ours,” said John Mancebo, the Westchester office managing partner. “They expand our ability to represent insurance agents and brokers, an area of great demand, and we are honored to call them our colleagues.”

Partners Cunningham, Grande and Kronberg have worked together for nearly two decades in the professional liability and errors & omissions arena, and the whole team has focused the bulk of their careers covering a wide spectrum of insurance law matters.

“We spent more than 10 years litigating a major case for a retail broker working alongside Kaufman Dolowich lawyers who were representing another broker involved in the case,” Kronberg said. “Having a front row seat to the quality of Kaufman Dolowich’s work for a decade made the choice of where to take our practice extremely easy. We are thrilled to be joining KD.”

The group, whose clients are primarily in New York, Connecticut, and surrounding states, also advise clients on regulatory matters, including those under the scope of New York Insurance Regulation 187. They also serve as the primary outside counsel to Big I New York, a national professional association for independent insurance agents and brokers.  In that capacity, they regularly consult with agents and brokers seeking advice on legal matters.

The four lawyers handle lawsuits, mediations and arbitrations across the country and litigate insurance policy matters. They have a wealth of experience supervising, monitoring, and litigating errors and omissions cases and routinely conduct E&O loss control audits for agencies and brokerages and provide continuing education in errors and omissions loss control techniques. With extensive industry relationships, the team also assists agents, brokers, agencies, and brokerages in all legal aspects of their businesses including with mergers, establishing finance companies, drafting contracts and other documents, and creating related entities. They represent agencies and brokerages from among Business Insurance’s “100 Largest Brokers of U.S. Business” list.

“This is a high caliber group of attorneys who know their trade, know all the players in the space and more importantly the industry knows and trusts them,” said firm co-managing partner Michael Kaufman. “Our national platform will allow them to expand their practice as well as offer their clients additional services that a one office regional firm cannot offer. It’s a win-win for all of us.”