Ken Maguire

Ken Maguire

After starting out his career as a home office casualty claims supervisor for Royal Insurance, Ken Maguire has over 30 years of experience in insurance litigation. In that time, he has used this experience in the representation of insurers, self-insureds, and brokers in casualty, property, and life insurance cases. Ken earned his law degree in 1981, while supervising litigation nationwide against Royal and its insureds. He has litigated to conclusion, including trials and appeals, hundreds of cases in the representation of casualty and property insurers and insureds.

Being a longtime member of the American and New York State Bar Associations, Ken has chaired the ABA subcommittee on Insurance Brokers. He has delivered numerous lectures for the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the Defense Association of New York, and the National Business Institute, and has conducted seminars for major insurance clients on a regular basis.

Ken currently represents major casualty and property insurers throughout the United States, including both State and Federal Courts in New York, Nevada, Indiana, and Utah, as well as providing counsel before the New York State Insurance Department.  

Ken has successfully argued hundreds of cases before Courts throughout New York State. Please see our “articles and decisions” page for a copy of some of these decisions.

Admissions:
New York State
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Southern District of New York
Eastern District of New York

Education:
Pace University School of Law, J.D.
CUNY Queens College, B.A.

Publications:
Recent East Coast Developments Affecting Additional Insureds on CGL Policies; IRMI Insurance Law Essentials. May, 2019.

Speaking Engagements:
Personal Injury from A to Z, NBI, Inc., December 2019.
Disaster Strikes--Insurance Implications of a Construction Calamity, American Bar Association ICLC Mid-Year Meeting, February 2019.
Applying the Rules of Evidence: What Every Attorney Needs to Know, National Bus. Institute, November 2018.
Duties to a Mortgagee, a Primer, Insurance Coverage Seminar, Loss Executives Association, 2018.
Insurer's Duty to Defend, National Bus. Institute, 2011. 
Update Law of U.M. / SUM Claims, National Bus. Institute, 2007. 
Ethical Issues and How to Respond, National Bus. Institute, 2006.
Insurance Litigation Seminar- CLE, ADM 2003
Insurance Litigation Seminar- CLE, Lorman, 2000-2001
Insurance Coverage Issues-Personal Lines, New York State Bar Association 1998.

Memberships: 
Loss Executives Association 
American Bar Association
New York Bar Association
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