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Insurance Coverage Member Dan D. Kohane has been named the 2025 Best Lawyers® Insurance Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Buffalo. Those recognized as “Lawyer of the Year” are attorneys with the highest overall peer-feedback for a specific practice area and geographic region. Only one lawyer is recognized as the "Lawyer of the Year" for each specialty and location, making this an esteemed honor.

Thirty of the firm’s attorneys were selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. Among this list, eight Hurwitz Fine attorneys were named to the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America® list.

President/Managing Partner Jody Briandi was selected as the outstanding Section Chair of the year and was awarded the John Appleman Award at the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel Annual Meeting in Toronto.

On July 11, 2024, Hurwitz Fine’s President/Managing Partner Jody Briandi was ranked #50 on Buffalo Business First’s 2024 Power 200 Women, a list of some of the most influential and talented women in Buffalo who have fueled economic, social, and cultural growth throughout Western New York. This is the fifth consecutive year that Jody has been featured on the annual Power 200 Women list. 

Hurwitz Fine Litigation Associates Patrice C.S. Melville and Ashley M. Cuneo authored “A Decade of Changes to Wrongful Death Statues Across the United States” in the Winter 2024 issue of The Brief, the American Bar Association (ABA)’s Tort Trial and Insurance Practice (TIPS) magazine.

Hurwitz Fine Insurance Coverage Senior Member Dan D. Kohane co-authored the article “Window Opening Statutes: Child Victims Act Claims and the Quest for Lost Policies” in the Winter 2024 issue of The Brief, the American Bar Association (ABA)’s Tort Trial and Insurance Practice (TIPS) magazine.

Agnieszka A. Wilewicz, Member at Hurwitz Fine P.C., was once again appointed as a Vice-Chair to the American Bar Associations (ABA) Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Sections’ (TIPS) Insurance Coverage Litigation General Committee for the 2024-25 bar year. 

For now the third straight year, New York’s legislature has passed a revised version of “the Grieving Families Act,” legislation that would completely overhaul wrongful death claims in New York by permitting recovery for emotional damages and expanding the class of persons who can seek recovery for a fatality. The current bill (A9232-b/S8485-b) still greatly expands the categories of available damages from New York’s current wrongful death statute which limits damages to economic or pecuniary losses of the survivors resulting from the death, the medical and funeral costs related to the final injury or illness, and the value of parental guidance, nurturing and care for surviving children.