Brandon Sipple

Special Counsel | Basking Ridge, United States
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Education

  • Villanova University School of Law, JD (cum laude), 2009
  • Lafayette College, AB (with honors), 2006

Brandon is special counsel in the firm’s Basking Ridge office. He advises insurance carriers on some of their most complex claim and coverage issues and represents them in related dispute resolution proceedings across the United States.     

Brandon has extensive experience handling first party coverage matters and is frequently instructed by carriers on their most pressing property coverage issues. He has provided coverage advice and represented clients in claim-related litigation across a broad spectrum, including major catastrophe events, wildfire and mudslide claims, civil unrest claims, builders risk claims involving crane incidents and major building developments, ocean and inland marine matters and complex business interruption and time element claims, including aggregate strategic oversight of hundreds of claims stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.  He has also developed niche technical expertise in claims and litigation involving fine art, valuable articles and collections, livestock mortality, entertainment property and fraud investigations, including the conduct of examinations under oath.  

Brandon’s broad-based experience also extends to third party and specialty matters, including complex casualty, construction defect, and environmental cases, workers compensation and employers liability claims, financial lines claims and cyber matters. 

Brandon’s experience includes tenures at all ends of the insurance policy lifecycle, including policy drafting and product development. Apart from his prior experience at a boutique insurance litigation firm, Brandon has previously served as an in-house counsel and claim executive for a few of the world’s most respected insurance underwriters.

Qualifications and admissions

  • New Jersey
  • New York
  • Pennsylvania
  • US District Court for the District of New Jersey
  • US District Court for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York
  • US District Court for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Pennsylvania
  • US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Market recognition

  • Rated AV Preeminent® by Martindale-Hubbell®

Work highlights

  • Advised global insurer on strategic enterprise response to COVID-19 pandemic, including the aggregate oversight of hundreds of claims and coverage litigations across multiple disciplines and jurisdictions.
  • Advised global insurer on enterprise risk issues stemming from a loss involving a high-rise building project in California with aggregate, multi-line exposures in excess of $100M.
  • Secured summary judgment on behalf of leading property insurer in litigation of significant water loss claim involving complex concurrent causation issues.
  • Successfully defended property insurer in litigation arising from a multi-million dollar business interruption claim made by a major New York City hotel in connection with Hurricane Sandy.
  • Counseled insurer on in the investigation of a significant New York City fire loss with aggregated risk across multiple disciplines with exposures in excess of $70M.
  • Advised entertainment property insurer in connection with complex delay and bodily injury claims impacting major film productions.
  • Successfully defended excess insurer in connection with millions of dollars in legacy workers’ compensation claims made by state pension system.
  • Successfully defended commercial property insurer in connection with large scale hail and water intrusion losses at a manufacturing and distribution facility in Texas with exposures in excess of $10M.
  • Secured dismissal at pleading stage of civil RICO and fraud claims asserted against workers compensation insurer stemming from the calculation and assessment of premiums.

Presentations and publications

  • “Out with the old, in with the new: Trends in losses involving aging infrastructure and the efforts to replace it,” presented at the 2024 Property Insurance Claims Group (PICG) Conference (June 2024)
  • “Out with the old, in with the new: Coverage issues arising from aging infrastructure and projects to replace it,” presented at the ABA TIPS Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee Mid-Year Meeting (February 2024)
  • “Property case law update 2023,” presented at the Loss Executives Association (LEA) Mid-Year Meeting (June 2023)
  • “Risk evaluation & claims team collaboration,” presented at the 2023 PLRB Claims Conference (March 2023)
  • “Excess workers compensation – Common coverage issues and writing effective letters to explain them,” In-House Client Training (March 2020)

Report decisions

  • Riya Dev Corp. v. AmGUARD Ins. Co., 2025 WL 900305 (D.N.J. Mar. 25, 2025)
  • Fontainebleau Fla. Hotel LLC v. Westchester Surplus Lines Ins. Co., 2025 WL 854336 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. Mar. 19, 2025)
  • E.M.S. Partners LLC v. AmGUARD Ins. Co., 742 F. Supp. 3d 410 (D.N.J. 2024)
  • Jacobsen v. Hartford Ins. Co. Flood & Home, 2020 WL 2127014, at *1 (D.N.J. May 5, 2020)
  • Warehouse Wines & Spirits, Inc. v. Travelers Prop. Cas. Co. of Am., 101 F. Supp. 3d 299 (S.D.N.Y. 2015)
  • Norguard Ins. Co. v. Apex Design & Const. Corp.,941 N.Y.S.2d 539 (Sup. Ct. 2011)

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