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AKA: L'Abbate Balkan Colavita
Other Link: http://lbcclaw.com
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Phone: (973) 422-0422

Address: 7 Regent St Ste 711, Livingston, NJ 07039

Website: http://lbcclaw.com

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L'abbate Balkan Colvaita & Contini

Guardianship

Fraud
LBC&C has a proven track record of successfully defending business professionals in every type of case from accounting malpractice to securities fraud.

Business and Corporate Law

Corporate Law
Ms. Monahan has over twenty years of experience in litigating professional liability matters in State and Federal Court as well as arbitrating and mediating claims. She has represented attorneys, accountants, architects, engineers, real estate professional and insurance brokers. Ms. Monahan has also represented clients in complex commercial litigation, including directors and officers, and has counseled clients involved in corporate disputes.
Business Disputes
Ms. Barcham heads the firm’s Business Planning and Transactions Practice Group and concentrates her practice in the areas of corporate, tax and business law and counsels business owners on a wide variety of corporate and tax matters, including business succession planning and asset protection planning.
Business Transactions
His representation of clients spans the gamut from individual professionals and directors to small and large corporations and municipalities. He also has a substantial practice representing corporate clients on commercial transactions.
Limited Liability Companies
Her corporate and business experience includes business sales and acquisitions, corporate recapitalizations, mergers and dissolutions, executive compensation agreements, shareholder, operating and partnership agreements, stock redemptions, formation of limited liability companies, corporations and partnerships, partnership and LLC "freezes" and sales to intentionally defective grantor trusts.
Construction Contracts
Significantly, while it is not always clear in construction contracts, a primary and noncontributory contract requirement does not apply to a professional liability insurance policy. To this end, a professional liability insurance policy provides coverage for the professional only. Since the policy is not providing coverage to the owner, there is no issue of priority of insurance coverage. Along the same lines, a contract should not have an additional insured requirement for a professional liability insurance policy since a non-professional (i.e., the owner) will not be covered by such a policy.
Intellectual Property
Um Laude from the Syracuse University College of Law in 1994. She then taught American contract and intellectual property law at a Chinese law school in Wuhan, China. After teaching for a year, she worked at two defense firms in New York City, where she defended complex Labor Law actions and general liability claims. She also represented diverse corporate clients, ranging from small local businesses to large international companies, in commercial litigation matters.

Workers Compensation
Employment Discrimination
Since then, Mr. Nunberg has continuously practiced in commercial litigation in the areas of real estate, securities, contract, trademark, employment discrimination and legal professional and directors’ and officers’ liability matters in the Federal and State courts. He holds the Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Rating AV® Preeminent, its highest rating for ethics and legal ability.
Employment Contract
He has successfully mediated issues in a wide variety of specialty areas, including commercial disputes, employment discrimination claims, employment contract disputes, wage and hour/FLSA claims, construction matters, complex personal injury and property damage claims, insurance and reinsurance matters, risk transfer disputes and life, health and disability claims. His legal career of over 35 years brings an added dimension of expertise to the matters over which he presides.
Severance Agreement

Real Estate Litigation
Mr. Spithogiannis concentrates his practice in the area of professional liability, including the defense of lawyers and accountants. Prior to joining the Firm he concentrated in commercial and real estate litigation.
Premises Liability
Dan is a Partner in L’Abbate, Balkan, Colavita & Contini, LLP’s New York office where his practice focuses on insurance coverage and civil litigation in state and federal court, alternative dispute resolution forums and in professional disciplinary actions. Specifically, Dan has extensive experience defending architects, engineers, construction managers, general contractors, owners and material suppliers in a wide range of multi-party complex construction claims including malpractice, breach of contract, delay, subrogation, personal injury, environmental, labor law and property damage. Dan also specializes in the representation of insurance carriers in complex insurance coverage disputes arising under various forms of comprehensive general liability, excess and umbrella policies of insurance. Further, he provides risk management consulting services and practices in the field of hospitality litigation defending hotels/restaurants in cases involving general liability and premises liability.
Construction Litigation
Virtually every construction contract includes a section or clause requiring the design professional, or contractor, to procure certain insurance before proceeding with the contracted for services. While not all insurance requirements are the same, the contracting party typically is obligated to procure certain insurance policies covering a variety of risks, including but not limited to, general liability insurance, professional liability insurance, and workers’ compensation insurance. The primary intention is that these policies will protect the owner, while also protecting the design professional and/or contractor for any damages resulting from the design professional’s and/or contractor’s services, which of course also has the dual effect of protecting the owner. To this end, the design professional and contractor are typically required to name certain entities (i.e., the ownership entities) as an additional insured(s) to the insurance policies. While that requirement is relatively self-explanatory, other important insurance requirements are often overlooked and/or misunderstood by the contracting party. Utilizing an insurance broker to comply with an insurance requirement is good practice. However, should the required insurance and/or form of insurance not be procured and maintained, the owner will look to the design professional and contractor for recovery through a breach of contract claim. Thus, at a minimum, the design professional and contractor should have a basic understanding of what they are agreeing to provide. This article focuses on a commonly misunderstood insurance requirement.
Real Estate Transactions
Prior to joining L'Abbate Balkan in 2001, Mr. McCaffery had a general practice in which he handled real estate transactions, business formations, commercial litigation, will drafting, and personal injury matters. Prior to his general practice, he was associated with two defense firms in New York City, where he defended Labor Law actions, dental malpractice actions, general liability claims and represented individuals, small businesses and large, self-insured corporations. This broad range of experience enables Mr. McCaffery to better represent his clients in the varied subject matter that arises in the context of legal malpractice actions and other defense litigation.
Property Damage

Personal Injury
Generally, a design professional’s and/or contractor’s insurance is required to be “primary and noncontributory” pursuant to the controlling contract. These are two separate but related requirements which, if not understood, could create exposure even when the contractually required insurance policies are procured. The term “primary and noncontributory” addresses the priority of insurance coverage. It decides which policy will respond as primary insurance, and which policy will respond as excess insurance. For example, an injured individual brings a personal injury lawsuit against an owner and design professional. The owner and design professional each have a general liability insurance policy which will cover this claim. However, the contract between the owner and design professional required that the owner be a named additional insured on the design professional’s general liability policy, and that the policy be primary and noncontributory. In this situation, the owner theoretically has two general liability policies providing coverage for this claim, i.e., the owner’s general liability policy and the design professional’s general liability policy as an additional insured. The “primary” requirement dictates that the design professional’s general liability policy is the primary insurance, rendering the owner’s general liability insurance as excess. Compliance with this insurance requirement is often impacted through an “other insurance” clause in the insurance policy. For example, an “other insurance” provision could state that any coverage provided to an additional insured under the policy is excess unless the underlying contract that required additional insured coverage also required the additional insured coverage to be primary and noncontributory. Alternatively, the “other insurance” clause could dictate the opposite.
Medical Malpractice
Since his admission to the Bar, Mr. Sacket has practiced in the areas of commercial litigation, professional liability litigation, environmental liability, including asbestos related matters, general liability, insurance defense litigation and medical malpractice. He is the presently the Co-Chairperson of the Design Professional Group, which focuses on the defense of architects, engineers and related design professionals.
Auto Accidents

Trusts and Estates

Estate Planning
Ms. Samuel concentrates her practice in the area of estate planning, trust and estate administration, elder law, and real estate.
Wills
Her practice includes all aspects of estate and trust administration, including the representation of estate beneficiaries, estate and trust accounting proceedings, will contests, preparation of federal and state estate tax returns and fiduciary income tax returns, and other contested estate matters.
Trusts
Ms. Barcham also heads the firm’s Trusts and Estates Practice Group and has many years of experience in estate and tax planning and estate and trust administration.

Bankruptcy
Tax Law
Ms. Samuel served as a Chair of the Tax Law Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association for the membership years beginning July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2010.

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