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Kevin's practice focuses on defending claims for benefits under ERISA group insurance plans, property and casualty defense work, asbestos claim defense and regulatory defense work.
He is counsel in New York State for New York Life Insurance Company, New York Life Group Insurance Company of New York, Life Insurance Company of North America, Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company and Connecticut General Life Insurance Company as well as various self-funded Employer Benefit Plans.
Kevin acts as Qualified Officer for New York Life Group Insurance Company of New York. In addition, he is on the approved panel of outside counsel for JP Morgan ChaseBank, NA, Target Corporation, Lancer Indemnity Insurance Company and various Managing General Agents for National Trucking Companies and Insurers.
He has been retained to represent numerous national self-insured accounts in personal injury, property damage lawsuits, asbestos claim litigation and trucking accident cases as well as to provide pre-litigation services concurrent with the happening of a catastrophic event.
Kevin stays involved in the community, giving back to his alma mater, Fordham University, by lending his wide range of legal knowledge to Fordham's Mock Trial team. He also offers legal guidance, and on the water kayak support, to the Yonkers Paddling and Rowing Club and Uptown Paddling, Inc., a non-profit offering free kayaking to neighborhood youth in Inwood and Washington Heights. He successfully completed training with Billion Oyster Project and is now an Ambassador of the organization, performing public outreach at community events, lecturing on the history of oysters and the status of local oyster restoration projects in addition to providing hands on support for their Oyster Research Stations ( ORS ) located in New York Harbor and adjacent waterways, especially the waters of the east Bronx where he volunteers with the City Island Oyster Reef. Kevin monitors the health and growth of the oysters in the ORS that are accessible via kayak.
On April 28, 2023 Kevin Horbatiuk won a verdict in favor of our clients after a trial on liability in Queens County, Supreme Court in the case of El Hassan vs Munoz Trucking Corporation and Maria Theresa Corral.
Kevin Horbatiuk received a favorable decision for our client in the case Cohen v. Life Insurance Company of North America, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Civil Action No. 17 CV 9270) from District Judge J. Paul Oetken.
In Colonial Funding Network, Inc. v. Swift Health Care, Inc., et al., Index 654647/2016, Supreme Court, New York County, Jeremy Berman secured an order vacating a restraining notice on a company''s bank account and vacating an approximately 6-year-old default judgment upon which the restraining notice was based.