Gavin Fung
Gavin.Fung@kennedyslaw.com
+1 215 665 8475
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Education
- Rutgers School of Law – Camden, JD, 2014
- Rutgers University, BA, 2008
Gavin is special counsel in the Philadelphia office. He represents and counsels insurers in coverage disputes relating to errors and omissions liability, professional liability, construction, advertising liability, commercial automobile, environmental, asbestos, and bad faith issues. He litigates and advises clients in matters involving commercial insurance, primary, umbrella, excess and surplus lines, personal lines, property insurance, professional liability insurance, and D&O insurance.
Gavin worked as in-house Coverage Counsel for a Fortune 100 insurer where he provided coverage advice to the claims and business groups relating to business and personal lines liability policies.
Prior to attending law school, Gavin served in the United States Marines Corp Reserve and worked as an insurance claims adjuster.
Qualifications and admissions
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- US District Court, District of New Jersey
- US District Court, Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Pennsylvania
- US Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
Presentations and publications
- Co-author, “New Jersey Appellate Court enforces ‘capacity’ exclusion in D&O policy as matter of first impression,” published for Kennedys (August 2024)
- Co-author, “Nanette Lepore loses due to intellectual property exclusion,” published for Kennedys (March 2020)
Report decisions
- Certain Underwriters At Lloyd's London Subscribing To Policy No. Meo1353173.20 v. Peerstar, LLC, 649 F. Supp. 3d 73, 75 (E.D. Pa. 2023) (enforced professional liability policy’s sexual abuse/misconduct sublimit for claims against healthcare provider insured).
- Colabelli v. Evanston Ins. Co., Civil Action No. 20-cv-715, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 33135, at *6 (E.D. Pa. Feb. 25, 2022) (vacating entry of default against insurer and holding that definition of “occurrence” was not satisfied by underlying construction defect claims).
- Shree Riddhi Siddhi Hosp., LLC v. Scottsdale Ins. Co., No. A-5210-15T2, 2017 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 2940, at *8 (App. Div. Nov. 29, 2017) (enforced water damage exclusion in a first party property policy).
Insurance and reinsurance