Stephen Goldberg is a partner in Dickstein Shapiro’s Insurance Coverage Practice. Mr. Goldberg focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation, primarily insurance coverage matters that have involved coverage for asbestos liabilities, product liability claims, first party property damage and business interruption losses, alleged environmental damage, errors and omissions, and directors and officers liabilities, as well as bad faith claims. He has represented policyholders with coverage issues in litigations involving amounts ranging from hundreds of thousands to billions of dollars. Mr. Goldberg currently is co-leader of the firm’s Property and Business Interruption Insurance Coverage Initiative.
AREAS OF CONCENTRATION
Mr. Goldberg has represented corporate and individual insureds. His clients have included: officers and directors; lenders; oil, chemical, and mining companies; casinos; hotel owners and operators; and consumer electronics manufacturers. He represents clients in a wide range of insurance recovery matters, including: claims involving directors and officers alleged liabilities; business interruption and first party property damage losses; professional errors and omissions; asbestos; and environmental and product liabilities. He represented the senior lender to the lessee of the World Trade Center in the property damage, business interruption, and liability coverage lawsuits filed in the Southern District of New York arising out of the events of September 11, 2001.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Prior to joining Dickstein Shapiro, Mr. Goldberg was a member of Heller Ehrman LLP’s insurance recovery and complex commercial litigation practice groups since 1973. He also is a former law clerk to the Honorable Hubert L. Will of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Since 2003, Mr. Goldberg has annually been recognized by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business as a leading attorney in the area of Insurance Coverage: California. According to the 2009 guide, he “is identified as a great attorney who provides excellent counsel on coverage issues involving products liability claims, alleged environmental damage, asbestos liabilities, E&O, D&O and first-party property damage and business interruption losses.” He also has regularly been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America and Southern California Super Lawyers.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Mr. Goldberg is admitted to practice in California and before the U.S. District Courts for the Central, Southern, Eastern, and Northern Districts of California and the Northern District of Illinois; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the American Bar Association’s Litigation Section, Torts and Insurance Practice Section, and Litigation Section’s Committee on Insurance Coverage Litigation; the State Bar of California; and, formerly, the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Insurance Practice Section Executive Committee. He also has been selected to be an Attorney Settlement Officer by the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Mr. Goldberg has spoken and prepared articles on many insurance coverage issues at a variety of conferences presented by Mealey’s Insurance Publications, the Practising Law Institute, and the Risk and Insurance Management Society.
EDUCATION
Mr. Goldberg received his B.A., cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Michigan (1967). He received his J.D. from Yale University, School of Law (1970).