Over the past few years law firms have seen a significant increase in cyber-attacks. According to the American Bar Association, of those polled nearly one third of firms with 100 or more attorneys have reported some form of data breach! That’s huge. Of all the cybersecurity weapons the hacker’s use, the most popular one is […]
COVID-19 Business Interruption Cases Continue in Large Numbers
One thing is certain, and that is that the COVID-19 pandemic will leave us with a tidal wave of litigation for years to come. There have already been several lawsuits filed against insurance companies that have denied claims for business interruption due to the pandemic. While insurance companies have won some of these lawsuits, in […]
Risk Management Alert: An Update on COVID-19 Insurance Litigation
As insurers continue to issue blanket denials for COVID-19 business interruption losses, courts nationwide are seeing an influx of cases seeking a review from the denials. A Bergen County Judge recently denied a Motion to Dismiss filed by an insurance company and rejected the insurer’s claim that COVID-related losses cannot qualify as covered losses. In Optical […]
News Release
(2017) In view of the $3.25M settlement in Bernards Township, amid the national rash of municipalities being sued by religious institutions, Michael J. Faul, Jr., special insurance counsel, located in Warren, N.J., is a highly informative resource for this topic. This case is a microcosm of lawsuits happening throughout the country. Although Mr. Faul cannot […]
Michael J. Faul, Jr. Now At Herold Law, P.A.
PROFESSIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT I am pleased to announce that, effective May 2, 2016, I joined the firm of Herold Law, P.A. as a shareholder. Herold Law is currently a 17 attorney general practice law firm, located in Warren, New Jersey. The firm provides strategic counseling and representation for individual, corporate, business, industrial, and […]
Insurance Coverage Law Developments
Michael routinely monitors coverage law developments and collects seminal decisions of New Jersey’s appellate courts and the state’s federal bench and Third Circuit Court of Appeals on pivotal decisions affecting both insurers and policyholders. He maintains an extensive electronic archive/brief bank on a full range of insurance matters that are readily accessible to the attorneys […]