With 25 years of legal experience, Vince primarily concentrates his practice on insurance defense, professional-malpractice defense, and insurance coverage. He regularly represents clients in both state and federal court, defending both insureds and self-insureds in claims involving products liability, construction accidents, trucking accidents, large-scale property damage and fire loss, and premises liability. Vince has also defended products-liability claims involving a wide variety of industrial, commercial, and consumer products.
Vince has defended many cases involving wrongful death and catastrophic injuries, representing clients in general negligence and premises-liability claims involving diving accidents, fraternities, security companies, sexual-abuse claims, and dram-shop actions. He has also represented clients in toxic-tort cases involving mold and asbestos exposure. Additionally, Vince has extensive experience in litigating construction-accident cases brought under the New York State Labor Law, including prosecuting and defending contractual indemnification and additional insured disputes arising from these cases.
Numerous Canadian insurance carriers have retained Vince to defend their insureds sued in New York in connection with trucking and motor-vehicle accidents, premises-liability claims, and products-liability actions. He has also handled cases involving commercial vehicles. Vince has handled matters involving multiple vehicles, chain-reaction collisions, motorcycles, pedestrians, bicycles, intoxicated drivers, drivers with medical conditions, and loading and unloading accidents. He also represents insurance carriers in the prosecution and defense of property-damage claims involving motor vehicles, including subrogation actions. Vince has also dealt with vicarious-liability issues involving vehicle owners and employers, including permissive use issues, uninsured and underinsured claims, and NYS loss-transfer claims involving no-fault subrogation.
Vince regularly represents attorneys in the defense of legal-malpractice actions and has defended trustees against claims by the NYS Worker’s Compensation Board and by trust members involving worker’s compensation self-insurance trusts. As an appellate litigator, he has handled dozens of appeals in litigation matters and has successfully argued at the NYS Court of Appeals.
Vince’s insurance-coverage practice includes defending and prosecuting declaratory judgment actions and handling appeals in coverage actions. He has handled a wide variety of issues in coverage cases, including analysis and litigation of priority of coverage, late notice, exclusions, misrepresentation claims, proof of lost insurance policies, manuscript endorsements, and additional insured provisions or first-party claims. Vince has also handled life-insurance actions.