Hurwitz Fine Insurance Coverage Senior Member Dan D. Kohane is the recipient of the 2023 Richard T. Boyette Award for outstanding contribution to the National Foundation for Judicial Excellence (NFJE).
The Boyette Award is the highest award bestowed by the NFJE and is presented to a person who has:
- Demonstrated a commitment to excellence in judicial education;
- Shown exceptional creativity and dedication in program development;
- Excelled in fundraising activities on behalf of NFJE; and
- Exemplified professionalism in promoting the case for a well-educated, independent judiciary.
Kohane is a past president of the NFJE from 2019 – 2020 and the past president and chair of the board of directors from 2020 – 2021.
He is a nationally known insurance coverage litigator and trial attorney who advises clients on a broad range of matters including insurance coverage, bad faith, tort defense, and ethics. In addition to the practice of law, Kohane has a passion for teaching. He has taught insurance coverage and related courses as an adjunct professor at the University of Buffalo School of Law since 1988. He was a founding member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Coverage Counsel. He has served on the Board of Directors of DRI, serves on DRI’s Insurance Law Steering Committee, and was program chair of its Insurance Coverage and Practice Symposium. He was Co-Editor in Chief of the DRI Reservation of Rights Compendium. In 2017, Kohane was selected as a member of the American Law Institute, an organization of nationally prominent judges, lawyers, and law professors who work together to produce scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and improve the law.
The NFJE is an independent, 501(c)(3) charitable foundation that provides state appellate judges with educational programming and other tools to enhance the rule of law and administration of justice.
