Tracy Alan Saxe

Mr. Saxe is one of the presenters for Workshop W2, "The Changing Terrain of Additional Insured Coverage," on Wednesday morning. Mr. Saxe is a skilled commercial litigator with more than 25 years of trial experience. Since 1990, he has focused his practice on insurance coverage issues, disputes, litigation, and trials on behalf of policyholders, handling cases involving coverage for comprehensive general liability, directors & officers, professional liability, builders risk, subguard, first-party property damage, additional insured, business interruption claims, and crime bonds. Mr. Saxe has handled cases involving coverage for construction defects, completed operations, product liability, property damage and bodily injury related to mold and asbestos, bodily injury related to construction, "sick building" syndrome, environmental claims, business interruption, employment disputes, patent infringement, contempt, RICO, unfair practices, breach of fiduciary duty, bad faith, and professional malpractice. Mr. Saxe is well versed in issues relating to late notice, allocation, subrogation, contribution, indemnification and the duty to defend.

Mr. Saxe was a principal at the law firm of Sachs, Berman, Rashba & Shure, P.C., from 1987 to 1994. He joined that firm following 4 years as an associate with Wofsey, Rosen, Kweskin & Kuriansky in Stamford, Connecticut. During that time Mr. Saxe tried numerous civil and criminal trials, including a murder trial in which his client was acquitted based upon self-defense. He left in 1994 to open the Connecticut office of Anderson, Kill, Olick & Oshinsky, a firm specializing in insurance coverage on behalf of policyholders. In 1996, Mr. Saxe founded Saxe Doernberger & Vita, P.C.

Mr. Saxe has successfully tried numerous jury and court trials in state and federal courts, has litigated cases before the federal, state trial, and appellate courts in Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts, California, Washington State, Texas, Florida, Delaware, Indiana and Michigan and has successfully mediated and arbitrated many disputes. Mr. Saxe has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at Quinnipiac University School of Law where he has taught courses in Insurance Law. He is also a frequent lecturer nationally on insurance coverage topics.

Mr. Saxe holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, 1983; a B.A., Policy Studies, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Syracuse University, 1980.

His admissions include the state courts of Connecticut, New York, District of Columbia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and Washington State. His federal court admissions include U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut; U.S. District Court, District of Columbia; U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana; U.S. District Court, District of Maryland; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan; U.S. District Court, Southern & Eastern Districts of New York; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit; and U.S. Supreme Court.

He is American Bar Association Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee (ICLC) Construction  Sub-committee Cochair and ABA ICLC Program Committee Co-Vice-Chair. His other professional activities include membership in Association of General Contractors of America and the Connecticut Bar Association.