Michael Mostow concentrates his practice in the areas of environmental law and the recovery of insurance proceeds for policyholders. Mr. Mostow represents clients in CERCLA litigation, environmental enforcement actions, complex transactions involving environmentally impacted real estate, toxic tort actions, brownfields redevelopment, negotiation of environmental insurance, state voluntary program cleanup and regulatory compliance. He has extensive experience working with federal and state agencies, and negotiating and drafting deal terms, pleadings, insurance policy terms, and settlements of lawsuits and enforcement actions. Mr. Mostow has litigated CERCLA actions and served as common counsel to CERCLA steering committees.

Representing policyholders, Mr. Mostow has recovered millions of dollars under claims previously denied by his clients’ liability and property insurance carriers. He has negotiated defense and indemnity coverage in the environmental context, litigated coverage actions concerning multiple contaminated sites located across the country, negotiated defense and indemnity coverage for claims arising from construction defects and violations of state and federal constitutional law, as well as advising clients on broad range of insurance issues, such as professional liability and D & O coverage. His experience includes:

• Representing paper manufacturer in CERCLA lawsuit concerning the multimillion dollar cleanup of PCBs in a riverbed.
  
  
• Representing client in purchase and redevelopment of former oil refinery.
  
  
• Defending chemical manufacturer in enforcement action stemming from chemical release and explosion.
  
  
• Representing purchaser of chemical plant.
  
  
• Defending toxic tort action involving contamination of residential drinking water wells.
  
  
• Negotiating and drafting all agreements for total risk transfer to environmental contractor and insurance company of CERCLA liabilities.
  
  
• Representing seller in multiple sales of former industrial, environmentally impacted properties located across the country where seller provided buyers with pollution and remediation legal liability policies in lieu of environmental indemnities.
  
  
• Representing policyholder in litigation concerning multimillion dollar investigative and cleanup costs associated with site operated by client since 1930s.
  
  
• Defending client at trial from claims brought under CERCLA, RCRA and state law concerning multimillion dollar cleanup of former die casting facility.
  
  
• Negotiating settlement of state, county and village nuisance odor enforcement actions against manufacturer of lime for the steel industry.
  
  
• Representing Chapter 11 debtor in sale of historic commercial general liability coverage to carriers that issued coverage from 1962 to 2000.
  
  
• Negotiating United States Army Corps of Engineers’ withdrawal of asserted jurisdiction over “naturalized” abandoned quarry.