gartner + bloom PC is an AV-rated law firm with an over twenty-five year history of handling complex litigation claims in New York, New Jersey, Florida and nationwide for a variety of corporate, real estate, and insurance carrier clients. G + B maintains three fully staffed law offices — Midtown Manhattan; Whippany, New Jersey; and Tampa, Florida.
We consider our primary litigation expertise to be the defense of complex casualty and property claims, including New York Labor Law claims, commercial auto, products liability claims, construction defect claims, and toxic tort and environmental claims. Additionally, our extensive national insurance coverage practice includes litigation, monitoring and advisory work. Our attorneys have deep practical experience in all aspects of insurance and reinsurance coverage and bring that experience to bear in our work with the world’s largest insurance groups.
Our client base includes large corporations, real estate builders and developers, condominium and cooperatives, and their insurers. Like all litigation firms we handle every aspect of the lawsuit – pleadings, motions, document discovery, depositions, mediation, witness preparation, and trial. Because of our experience and results, however, our clients and carriers often call on us to handle other aspects of a claim as well, including pre-suit investigation, risk transfer, companion declaratory judgment coverage actions, coverage opinions and appeals.
Our insurance clients include: Admiral Insurers, The American Safety Insurance Group of Companies, Arch Insurance Group, Armour Risk Management Limited, Atlantic Mutual, AXIS Capital Holdings, Berkley Public Entity Managers (a Berkley Company), Builders Insurance, Co-Action, CNA Insurance, Colony Insurance Company, Core Programs, Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Fubon Insurance Company, Generali Insurance Group, GRE, Greater New York Mutual Insurance Company, Harleysville Insurance Co., Hudson Insurance Co., Lloyds of London, Markel Insurance Co., Maryland Insurance Group/Zurich Commercial Insurance Group, Navigators Insurance Company, New York Marine and General Insurance Company, The New York Property Insurance Underwriting Association, North American Risk Services (NARS), Old Republic Contractors Insurance Group, Old Republic Insurance Group, One Beacon, One Source Insurance Group, PMA Insurance Group, Reliance Insurance Group (In Liquidation), Seneca Insurance Group, State National Insurance Company, Travelers/St. Paul Insurance, Uber Technologies, Vela Insurance (a Berkley Company) and Viad Corp, a self-insured pool.
The overriding commitment of the firm is to exceed the expectations of our clients. We believe that litigation is a means of advancing or protecting the client’s overall goals. We pride ourselves on our ability to provide high-quality, cost-efficient representation and results, collaborating with our clients to achieve the level of attention and expense appropriate to each matter. At gartner + bloom PC we are keenly aware that the people and businesses we represent measure our success by the way we help them achieve their objectives, including through the extensive use of ADR. Our website includes the reported decisions and lawsuits we have been involved in, as well as some of our publications.