Lawyers

BLAISE U. CHOW

Partner — New York

EXPERIENCE

Blaise Chow concentrates his practice in professional liability and corporate law, including advising on policies issued to directors and officers, financial institutions, non-profits, brokers, and lawyers.  Mr. Chow's recent work includes advising a number of clients on the many insurance issues arising from "bump up" cases, "stock drop" cases, as well as Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement actions and Department of Justice criminal actions taken against individual directors, officers and the corporate entity itself.  This includes evaluating insurance coverage for the many financial institutions and public entities who have been impacted by the economic downturn.

His practice also includes negotiation of settlements in mediation, and if necessary, litigating or arbitrating claims arising from business disputes and employment lawsuits that span from individual entrepreneurs to mid-size and larger corporations.

Mr. Chow recently successfully obtained summary judgment on behalf of a law firm against claims in connection with foreclosing on defaulted subprime mortgages based on alleged violations of RESPA, FDCPA, RICO and common law fraud that arose out of "robo-signer" affidavits of mortgage ownership.

Prior to joining Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley, Mr. Chow has also counseled domestic and foreign reinsurance clients on a wide variety of matters pertaining to treaty and facultative reinsurance for asbestos, health hazard and pollution. He also analyzed reinsurance and retrocession contracts, conducted claims valuation exercises, examined the reasonableness of settlements by reinsureds, and provided advice on the interpretation of numerous kinds of reinsurance coverage.  Today, Mr. Chow continues to advise clients on reinsurance and retrocession coverage surrounding governmental entities as well as D&O products.

Mr. Chow was admitted to practice to the New York State Bar in April 2001, and received his bachelor's degree from University of Rochester in 1997 and his law degree from Brooklyn Law School in 2000.