Dennis O'Neil Cowling

DENNIS O'NEIL COWLING has years of experience in civil litigation and appellate practice.  His practice has extended into a full range of insurance issues, including coverage disputes among insurers, insureds, claimants, and uninsured interlopers. The types of insurance matters he has handled include fidelity, surety, errors and omissions, directors and officers, environmental, fiduciary liability, and marine as well as various miscellaneous bonds, such as appeal and surrogate’s bonds, with an occasional drafting of policy language. Claims coverage work has included claims on international scale. He also has had extensive experience in defense of insureds in complex matters, as well as substantial subrogation recoveries for insurance carriers. He works in the Litigation & Insurance Services Group in our New York office.   

Mr. Cowling graduated from the University of Wisconsin’s main campus in Madison, Wisconsin, with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. He received his Juris Doctorate from Rutgers University School of Law-Newark.  While in law school, he was a research assistant for Professor Howard A. Latin. Mr. Cowling practices law in New York State courts, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and has been admitted pro hac vice in other state and federal courts.

DENNIS O'NEIL COWLING has years of experience in civil litigation and appellate practice.  His practice has extended into a full range of insurance issues, including coverage disputes among insurers, insureds, claimants, and uninsured interlopers. The types of insurance matters he has handled include fidelity, surety, errors and omissions, directors and officers, environmental, fiduciary liability, and marine as well as various miscellaneous bonds, such as appeal and surrogate’s bonds, with an occasional drafting of policy language. Claims coverage work has included claims on international scale. He also has had extensive experience in defense of insureds in complex matters, as well as substantial subrogation recoveries for insurance carriers. He works in the Litigation & Insurance Services Group in our New York office.   

Mr. Cowling graduated from the University of Wisconsin’s main campus in Madison, Wisconsin, with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. He received his Juris Doctorate from Rutgers University School of Law-Newark.  While in law school, he was a research assistant for Professor Howard A. Latin. Mr. Cowling practices law in New York State courts, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and has been admitted pro hac vice in other state and federal courts.

Education

University of Wisconsin, Madison (B.A. 1975)
Rutgers U. School of Law - Newark (J.D. 1988)

Admissions

State of New York
U.S. District Court, SDNY
U.S. District Court, EDNY