Izak B. Weintraub

Izak Weintraub is a trial and corporate attorney who has a proven track record of successfully representing insurers in litigation involving insurance and reinsurance coverage, as well as regularly advising insurance clients on corporate, transactional and regulatory matters. He also has experience defending insureds involved in professional liability, employment liability, and discrimination lawsuits.

Izak is a key member of London Fischer’s Cybersecurity team, which assists insurer-clients and their insureds with combating the risks associated with a technology-dependent society and increased cyber threats from all over the world. Izak has substantial experience handling cyber-related incidents as claims, coverage, and monitoring counsel for multiple standalone cyber insurance programs, as well for general liability, professional liability, and specialty lines policies that offer cyber-related coverage. Additionally, he works with clients to develop comprehensive action plans to restore computer systems to full operating status after an attack.

Izak has extensive experience litigating and resolving commercial disputes, primarily with regards to Directors & Officers, Errors and Omissions and Employment Practices Liability Policies.

Before joining London Fischer, Izak served as an Alexander fellow under the Hon. Roslynn Mauskopf of United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and as a summer associate at a highly respected New Jersey-based law firm.

When he is not immersed in the practice of law, Izak engages in a diverse variety of hobbies and interests, among them the culinary arts, photography, horology, and scuba diving.

Notable Decisions/Results

•LEXIS 47716 (E.D.N.Y. Mar. 17, 2022)

Mr. Weintraub was a member of a litigation team that in March 2022 won summary judgment in the Eastern District of New York on behalf of Westchester Fire Insurance Co. in a case involving coverage for a corporate officer under a Directors & Officers (D&O) policy. Citing specific policy language, the court held that contempt proceedings against the officer in 2018 arose out of Interrelated Wrongful Acts and prior claims that were made before the start of Westchester’s 2017-2018 claims-made policy.

•Conduent State Healthcare, LLC v. AIG Specialty Ins. Co., C. A. N18C-12-074 MMJ CCLD

Mr. Weintraub was one of three London Fischer trial attorneys that persuaded a Delaware Superior Court jury in February 2022 to find that Conduent State Healthcare LLC engaged in insurance fraud and bad faith in its $236 million settlement of a lawsuit filed against it by the state of Texas under the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act. The jury also found that Conduent breached its duties under the policy to cooperate and to seek written consent in connection with the settlement. The coverage action arose out of the settlement of the lawsuit seeking $2 billion in civil penalties and treble damages from Conduent for allegedly having misrepresented the thoroughness of its review of prior authorization applications for Medicaid orthodontic services. The settlement was the largest ever obtained by the Texas Attorney General’s Office.

News & Insights

September 19, 2022

Cybersecurity - Insurance Coverage and Response

March 23, 2022

Eastern District of N.Y. grants London Fischer’s summary judgement motion in D&O coverage action involving interrelated wrongful acts