Chris Christofides, Partner
Mr. Christofides has devoted almost all of his 32-year legal career to pursuing substantial property subrogation claims and defending first- and third-party claims relating to property loss.He is a Martindale-Hubbell rated AV Preeminent attorney and has litigated highly complex actions involving fires, water damage, electrical service and gas service, construction defect, builder's risk, inland marine, bailment, common carriers, jewelers block, boiler and machinery, Labor Law, and products liability issues.
Mr. Christofides is a frequent speaker at seminars lecturing to insurance professionals at the Property Loss Research Bureau, the College of Insurance in New York and at seminars given by the New York State and New York City Bar Associations. He has presented on numerous property topics including subrogation, spoliation of evidence, cause and origin investigation, investigation and defense of arson and fraud claims and the handling of first-party insurance claims.
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| Construction Law First-Party and Third-Party Property Defense General Liability Premises Liability Products Liability Subrogation Transportation |
Queens College of the City University of New York, B.A. (1976) magna cum laude Brooklyn Law School, J.D. (1979) Senior Editor of the Brooklyn Law Review |
Arbitration Panel for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York National Association of Subrogation Professionals Maritime Law Association of the United States Defense Research Institute (DRI) |
New York, 1980 U.S. District Court, Western District of New York, 1980 U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, 1981 U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1984 Supreme Court of the United States, 1984 |
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