Tracy Alan Saxe

Mr. Saxe is one of the presenters for Workshop T1, "Risk and Insurance Implications Due to Project Delays," on Tuesday afternoon. He is a skilled commercial litigator with more than 25 years of experience in insurance coverage issues. Since 1990, he has focused his practice on insurance coverage litigation on behalf of policyholders, handling cases involving coverage for comprehensive general liability, directors and officers, professional liability, builders risk, subguard, first-party property damage, additional insured and business interruption claims. 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., a well-respected New Haven based firm, from 1989 to 1994. He joined that firm following 4 years with Wofsey, Rosen, Kweskin & Kuriansky in Stamford, Connecticut. He left in 1994 to open the Connecticut office of Anderson, Kill, Olick & Oshinsky, a large New York-based firm. 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 handled 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, 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.

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