Professional Activities:
Connecticut Bar Association, Member • Connecticut Bar Association, Insurance Law Section, Past Chairman • Business Law, Litigation, Commercial Law & Bankruptcy Sections, - Participant • New Haven County Bar Association, Member • Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, Member
Honors:
Named "Best Lawyers in New York 2008" in New York Magazine
Named "2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2010 Connecticut SuperLawyer"
Jeffrey J. Vita is a founding partner of Saxe Doernberger & Vita, P.C., a Connecticut-based firm dedicated to the representation of policyholders in insurance coverage disputes. Mr. Vita's practice focuses on the representation of business policyholders in insurance coverage matters implicating various lines of coverage including comprehensive general liability, directors & officers, professional liability, commercial property, and pollution.
Mr. Vita has handled coverage cases related to construction, professional malpractice, environmental, business interruption, employment, disability, title insurance and healthcare. He has successfully tried numerous court trials and commercial arbitrations. He also has authored numerous articles on insurance coverage issues and has lectured nationally on a variety of insurance coverage topics including additional insured issues, bad faith claims, priority and allocation of coverage, and builder's risk claims.
Mr. Vita joined the New Haven law firm of Sachs, Berman, Rashba & Shure, P.C. in 1990, where he focused his practice on complex commercial litigation matters. He left the firm in 1994 to open the Connecticut office of Anderson, Kill Olick & Oshinsky, a large New York based firm. In 1996, Mr. Vita founded Saxe Doernberger & Vita, P.C.
Mr. Vita received his J.D. from Quinnipiac University School of Law, where he served as Managing Editor of the Law Review. He received his B.A., cum laude, from the University of Connecticut. Mr. Vita is a past chairman of the Insurance Law Section of the Connecticut Bar Association and is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he taught "Current Issues and Trends in Insurance Litigation."
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