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Jared Zola is a partner in Blank Rome’s policyholder-only insurance recovery practice, formerly the insurance practice of Dickstein Shapiro LLP. Recently named one of the “Top 500 Leading Litigators in America” by Lawdragon, Jared’s work&nbsp;litigating high-stakes&nbsp;cases across the country for blue chip corporate clients has earned him consistent praise.Jared’s industry recognitions span 15 years. Recent client commentary includes:<ul>	<li>Chambers USA:		<ul>			<li>“Jared has an amazing ability to make the complex understandable, and he uses that skill to advance his client’s interests.” (2025)</li>			<li>“Jared is smart, responsive, reliable and always has our back.” (2025)</li>			<li>“Jared is an extremely smart and well-rounded lawyer. He has significant expertise in insurance coverage matters and is a great guy to work with.” (2025)</li>			<li>“Jared is adept at handling complex coverage issues.” (2025)</li>			<li>Jared “is gifted at framing and then presenting arguments and very fast at assimilating new knowledge and applying it to the matter at hand” and “is very experienced and a strategic thinker who is calm, measured but also assertive.” (2024)</li>			<li>“Jared is extremely practical and business-oriented” who “is very well connected and a strong advocate”&nbsp;and he “doesn't get overly technical and is great at making complex ideas simple.” (2023)</li>		</ul></li>	<li>Legal 500:		<ul>			<li>“In New York, trial lawyer&nbsp;Jared Zola&nbsp;is a key contact for high-profile clients," and an "up-and-coming leader in the practice area.” (2025)</li>			<li>“In New York, Jared Zola focuses on high-stakes litigation and corporate transactions.” Together with Jim Murray, they “have that rare combination of legal expertise, common sense, and loyalty to the interest of the client that make them ideal for any policyholder that needs a coverage lawyer.” (2024)</li>		</ul></li>	<li>Lexology Index (formerly&nbsp;Who’s Who Legal):		<ul>			<li>Jared is an “outside-the-box thinker and expert negotiator” who “combines high technical expertise with a client-friendly approach.” (2023)</li>		</ul></li></ul>Jared is ranked highly in insurance based on client feedback, including&nbsp;by Chambers USA (Nationwide and New York), as a Legal 500 “Leading Partner,” and as a top litigator by Benchmark Litigation. Lexology, Inc. named him the 2020 “Exclusive Winner of the Client Choice Award for Insurance &amp; Reinsurance for the USA” (finalists can only be nominated by corporate counsel). New York Law Journal named Jared a “New York Trailblazer” in its inaugural list (the only insurance lawyer across all practices). Jared is also a Fellow of the prestigious invitation-only American College of Coverage Counsel.Jared is a frequent analyst for the Financial Times, Washington Post, NBC News, CBS News,&nbsp;Business Insurance, Insurance Business America, and&nbsp;Law360.

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Jared advocates for commercial insurance policyholders in high-stakes, complex litigation and corporate transactions. He represents policyholders against their insurance companies as lead counsel in precedent-setting lawsuits across the nation and at the deal table as insurance counsel on multi-billion dollar mergers and acquisitions. Jared uses his courtroom and real world experience to provide clients with practical, business-focused solutions to complex legal issues. He has helped clients secure more than $1.5 billion in insurance recoveries.
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<li>One of the country’s largest automotive dealership groups, as lead counsel seeking insurance coverage from the client’s cyber insurance program for business interruption losses resulting from a cyberattack on a key software provider.</li>
<li>A Fortune 500 manufacturing company, in lead role presenting witnesses’ direct testimony and cross-examining witnesses at a successful insurance recovery arbitration involving coverage for major international product liability losses.</li>
<li>A Fortune 500 life sciences company,&nbsp;successfully argued for summary judgment on the applicable “number of occurrences” issue in a significant insurance recovery litigation in Minnesota federal court involving an underlying medical device product liability MDL.</li>
<li>Many entities and organizations across the country as counsel in coverage litigation arising from allegations of negligently hiring or supervising perpetrators of sexual abuse, often from many decades ago.</li>
<li>An Irish subsidiary of a Global 500 company as lead counsel seeking coverage for a creative agency’s losses related to the cancellation of a commercial when the starring artist became involved in situation that brought her into public contempt and ridicule.</li>
<li>A well-known chocolate company, in lead role presenting witnesses’ direct testimony and cross-examining witnesses at a high-profile insurance recovery jury trial in New York federal court involving property damage and business interruption losses.</li>
<li>A public REIT owning several dozen retail shopping centers, as lead counsel in a coverage litigation pending in New Jersey state court seeking more than $20 million from its pollution liability insurers. Successfully argued in opposition to summary judgment and reconsideration in a closely watched insurance recovery litigation for COVID-19 business interruption losses.</li>
<li>One of the country’s largest automotive dealership groups, as lead counsel in litigation&nbsp;in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida seeking coverage from its insurers.</li>
<li>A Fortune 500 manufacturing company, seeking billions of dollars of coverage for damages incurred defending and settling underlying environmental property damage and bodily injury claims across the world.</li>
<li>A Fortune&nbsp;500 global commercial real estate services company as lead counsel seeking $25 million of coverage from its Professional Liability insurer for alleged negligent oversight of capital improvement projects leading to contractor overpayments.</li>
<li>The largest bakery company in the United States, defeated an insurer’s motion to dismiss our client&#8217;s counterclaim seeking insurance coverage filed in California federal court under an insurance policy issued to a third-party logistics company.</li>
<li>An automotive industry company, which is a portfolio company of a large private equity firm, as lead counsel successfully obtaining contribution of insurance proceeds from its D&amp;O insurer to resolve an underlying lawsuit alleging misappropriation of confidential and proprietary information by former employees.</li>
<li>A renewable energy company, which is a portfolio company of a large private equity firm, as lead counsel seeking coverage from its D&amp;O insurer for the Loss incurred responding to a grand jury subpoena.</li>
<li>A company focused on the outdoor and consumer industries and its CEO, as lead counsel in a coverage litigation pending in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida seeking coverage from its insurer.</li>
<li>A staffing and solutions company, which is a portfolio company of a large private equity firm, as lead counsel seeking coverage from its D&amp;O insurer for the Loss incurred responding to a search warrant.</li>
<li>A Fortune 500 global systems integration company, as lead counsel seeking coverage from its Professional Liability and Cyber Liability insurers for allegations asserted in a pending data breach MDL.</li>
<li>A Fortune&nbsp;100 manufacturing company, as lead insurance coverage counsel for the buyer in a seven-billion-dollar acquisition deal.</li>
<li>Petroterminal de Panama, S.A., as lead counsel successfully presented oral argument and obtained partial summary judgment against six London and Bermuda maritime insurers in a property damage coverage litigation in New York federal court.</li>
<li>The Diocese of Duluth, successfully presented oral argument and obtained partial summary judgment rejecting an insurer’s attempt to avoid sexual abuse coverage based on a policy exclusion in Minnesota federal court.</li>
<li>A real estate investment trust, seeking more than $150 million of damages from the REIT&#8217;s property insurance broker for breach of contract and negligence, among other allegations, in connection with coverage for a major flood loss to a mall in Tennessee.</li>
<li>One of the world’s largest diamond companies, seeking coverage for the loss of a multimillion-dollar rare blue diamond in Milan, Italy.</li>
<li>An international Am Law 50 law firm, as lead counsel auditing its insurance portfolio including enhancements to its cyber, management liability, and professional liability&nbsp;insurance programs.</li>
<li>A former big-law partner, as lead counsel obtaining disability insurance coverage for mental disability; reversing the insurer’s prior denial of coverage and affirmance of its denial prior to our involvement.</li>
<li>A real estate investment trust, representing the owner of two large shopping centers in Puerto Rico seeking insurance coverage for property damage and business interruption losses arising from Hurricane Maria.</li>
<li>A Fortune&nbsp;100 manufacturing company, lead insurance coverage counsel for the buyer in a $2 billion acquisition deal.</li>
<li>A pump manufacturer, successfully presented appellate oral argument on a complex allocation issue arising in an asbestos coverage lawsuit against more than 90 insurance companies, which preserved $250 million of insurance policy limits for the client.</li>
<li>A Fortune 500 systems integration company, recovered more than $50 million of insurance proceeds from 7 of the company’s professional indemnity insurers for a claim involving alleged False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Act violations.</li>
<li>A real estate investment firm, as lead counsel recovering more than $20 million of commercial property&nbsp;insurance proceeds for losses caused by a fire.</li>
<li>A media company, lead counsel obtaining a settlement after filing a motion for summary judgment in a New York federal court litigation involving coverage involving publication of a constitutionally protected news report and video excerpts.</li>
<li>A major international law firm, lead counsel seeking coverage under an employment practices liability insurance policy for a claim of age discrimination.</li>
<li>A NFL player, obtained a settlement under a Loss of Value insurance policy after an unforeseen injury in college negatively impacted his NFL draft position.</li>
<li>A major alcohol beverage distributor, as lead counsel seeking coverage for contingent business interruption losses arising from Hurricane Irma.</li>
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