Mark J. Bunim

MARK J. BUNIM is a certified mediator (by the CPR Center for Dispute Resolution) and an attorney licensed to practice in the Courts of New York and the United States Courts since 1976. He is the managing director of Case Closure, LLC. From 1996 to 2005 he had been a partner in Robinson Silverman Pearce Aronsohn & Berman, which became Bryan Cave (in 2002) focusing on commercial litigation, insurance related and coverage cases, and alternative dispute resolution. He was in charge of the insurance and risk management group at the New York office of Robinson Silverman and Bryan Cave. Before that he was a partner at another law firm specializing in insurance, complex tort and computer related disputes.

Mr. Bunim has participated in numerous mediations concerning insurance coverage issues, securities issues and Directors and Officers liability. He has mediated attorney and accountant professional liability disputes, partnership disputes, real estate related disputes, World Trade Center property-loss recovery disputes and jewelry industry conflicts. He has mediated complex tort cases using structured settlements. He has represented, at different times, insurance companies and insureds on claims involving coverage issues.

Mr. Bunim is a member of the Panel of Mediators of the Commercial Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York; the Panel of Mediators of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York; Mediation/A.D.R. Committees of : the New York State Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the Nassau County Bar Association. He has been appointed to the Association of the Bar of the City of New York Panel for Mediation of Condominium and Co-Op Disputes. He is also a member of ARIAS, the reinsurance arbitration society.

Mr. Bunim graduated from New York University, summa cum laude, in 1971 and Rutgers University School of Law (1975). He has spoken at meetings, conventions, and seminars around the country on insurance issues. i.e. the RIMS Convention and the NAREIT Convention, and has appeared on radio, television and in the press, talking about risk management and insurance coverage and recovery.

Representative Mediations

Insurance

Mediated an insurance coverage dispute arising out of a property damage loss in lower Manhattan, to a significant commercial property, resulting from the collapse of the World Trade Center.
Mediated a dispute between a primary insurer and excess layers and reinsurers of excess layers, both domestic and foreign, as to percentage allocation of loss for foreign-based multiple gas explosions.
Mediated a dispute between competing insurers as to which policy was responsible for a large personal injury loss.
Mediated resolution of an insurance coverage dispute for a restaurant/bar’s liability for personal injuries, including permanent paraplegic injury, involving use of a structured settlement.
Mediated an insurance coverage dispute between the officers of an auto warranty business and their D&O insurer involving coverage for a shareholder suit.
Mediated a dispute on coverage for a large diamond loss arising out of damage to a stone in the processing of the end-product.
Mediated an insurance coverage dispute regarding a sports arena, resulting from sexual harassment and battery by security guards of patrons, at an event.
Arbitrated workers compensation insurance program premium reimbursement dispute.

Business Disputes

Mediation of a claim against former directors and officers of an internet company by creditors of that company, for negligent management practices.
Mediation of a Class Action shareholder suit involving a stock buy-back undervaluation claim.
Mediation of a multi-million dollar battle between executors of an estate where the deceased left stock to be distributed to charities and the co-executors bitterly disagreed as to which charities would be recipients.
Mediation of a lender liability claim on loans to foreign diamond importers.
Mediation of an accountant liability claim arising out of undetected defalcations.
Mediation of an accountant liability claim involving allegations of negligent preparation of financial statements and projections.
Mediation of a claim against a financial advisor resulting from the recommendation of faulty investments.