Overview
Steve Brodie has extensive experience in insurance-related litigation, including coverage, defense, and regulatory matters. His clients include Fortune 100 companies, major insurers, financial services companies, telecommunications firms, officers and directors, institutional lenders, and developers. As lead counsel, he has defended matters in numerous jurisdictions and more than 20 states, including California, Florida, Hawaii, Kentucky, Michigan, New York, Tennessee, and Virginia. He also frequently handles litigation regarding securities and complex commercial matters.
Steve counsels a wide variety of insurance companies with respect to multiple lines of business as well as leading insurance brokers. His services include litigating insurance coverage matters, first-party claims, bad faith claims, a wide variety of class action defense including securities, cyber and data breaches, and TCPA matters. Steve also represents insurance carriers before insurance regulators and handles regulatory and business litigation. He has long been involved in a wide range of substantive insurance areas, including forming reciprocal insurance companies, drafting insurance policies, and loss mitigation transfers. He is also experienced in the emerging field of environmental impairment insurance and cybersecurity.
He is the primary attorney responsible for assembling a team of lawyers and professionals to defend the largest U.S. provider of prepaid mobile phone services in actions across the country against international traffickers of prepaid mobile phones. These traffickers are involved in schemes to alter the phones’ proprietary software, repackage the devices, and resell them domestically and abroad to unsuspecting customers.
Steve filed an amicus brief before the Florida Supreme Court on behalf of a major insurance company and is involved in numerous cases and appeals throughout the United States.
Steve also provided pro bono representation to U.S. Holocaust survivors in a class action settlement of claims against a Swiss bank.
In addition to his litigation practice, Steve provides professional business guidance and lobbying services. This representation includes helping clients to procure government contracts and take advantage of other business opportunities in the public and private sectors. He has lobbied before the state of Florida and local governments on behalf of a wide variety of businesses.
Steve is a frequent speaker on insurance industry issues and has authored numerous articles on D&O coverage and bad faith, and has authored chapters in various insurance and business treatises. Widely recognized for his legal skills, Steve was awarded the Judge Learned Hand Award by the American Jewish Committee and has been listed in BTI’s Client Service All-Stars, The Best Lawyers in America, Florida Super Lawyers, South Florida Business Journal’s Power Leaders, and South Florida Legal Guide’s Top Lawyers. He also holds leadership positions in a variety of professional organizations. He serves as vice president and a member of the board of directors and executive committee of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, and on the board of directors and executive committees of the Baptist Health Foundation, United Way Miami, University of Miami Board of Trustees, and is a member of the University of Miami Citizens Board.
Steve is the Miami office co-managing shareholder and serves as co-chair of the firm's Property and Casualty Insurance Practice and the Insurance Industry Group.
"Steve is our go-to on our securities and complex commercial litigation and class actions."
"He is really responsive."
BTI Client Service All-Stars 2022
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