Mr. Maniloff is a partner in the Commercial Litigation Department. He concentrates his practice in the representation of insurers in coverage disputes over primary and excess obligations under a host of policies, including commercial general liability and various professional liability policies, such as public official's, law enforcement, educator's, media, computer technology, architects and engineers, lawyers, real estate agents, community associations, environmental contractors, Indian tribes and several others. Mr. Maniloff has significant experience in coverage for environmental damage and toxic torts, first-party property, liquor liability and construction defect, including additional insured and contractual indemnity issues.
Mr. Maniloff is a frequent contributor of articles to Mealey's Litigation Report: Insurance and FC&S Bulletins, among other publications, addressing a variety of insurance coverage topics. For the past nine years, Mr. Maniloff has published a year-end article in Mealey's that addresses the ten most significant insurance coverage decisions of that year. Mr. Maniloff has written for such influential organizations as The Federalist Society, Manhattan Institute and Washington Legal Foundation. He also publishes Binding Authority, an e-mail newsletter that provides summaries and in-depth analysis of just-issued significant insurance coverage decisions.
Mr. Maniloff is a frequent lecturer at industry seminars and has been quoted on insurance coverage topics by such media as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Dow Jones Newswires, Associated Press, A.M. Best, Business Insurance, National Underwriter, Insurance Journal, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Times-Picayune and The National Law Journal.
Mr. Maniloff serves as one of three Deans of the White and Williams Coverage College - an annual event that brings together 450 insurance professionals from across the country, representing approximately 150 companies, for an intensive day-long curriculum of insurance coverage education. Click here for 2009 Coverage College brochure.
Mr. Maniloff is currently co-writing a book on insurance coverage, with Professor Jeffrey Stempel of the University of Nevada Las Vegas Boyd School of Law, to be published by Oxford University Press in late 2010.
In 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, Mr. Maniloff was selected in a survey of his peers as a Pennsylvania "Super Lawyer" by Law & Politics magazine. Mr. Maniloff was selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America in 2009 and 2010 and was a finalist for the LexisNexis Insurance Law Center's Insurer Attorney of the Year for 2008.
Mr. Maniloff previously spent seven years at Christie, Pabarue, Mortensen and Young, including serving as Chair of the firm's Insurance Coverage Group. Before that, Mr. Maniloff spent four years as counsel to Professional Travel Insurance Company, Ltd., a Gibraltar-based insurer conducting business primarily in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Maniloff received his B.S., with distinction, in 1988 from Pennsylvania State University and his J.D. in 1991 from Temple University School of Law. He is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania.
