dsweetman@gkar-law.com

Don Sweetman graduated from Seton Hall University Law School in 1984, after obtaining his B.A. from Rutgers University in 1980. Upon graduation, he served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Walter R. Barisonek, Judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Union County (1984-1985). He is a litigator with considerable trial experience in the state and federal courts of New Jersey and New York. Don joined Gennet, Kallmann, Antin and Robinson in 2000, and became a partner of the firm in 2003.

He has been counsel in litigated matters which resulted in important reported decisions, including Winding Hills Condominium Association, Inc, v, North American Speciality Insurance Co., 332 N.J. Super 85 (App. Div. 2000), where the Appellate Division declined to apply the "continuous trigger" theory of causation to first-party insurance; Affiliated F.M. Insurance v. Kushner Cos., 265 N.J. Super 454 (Law Div. 1993), a case involving back-dating of insurance coverage and imparted knowledge to a partnership; Stone v. Royal Insurance, 211 N.J. Super 246 (App. Div. 1986), concerning concurrent causation in the context of first-party coverage; and, Fricke v. Geladaris, 221 N.J. Super 49 (App. Div. 1987), involving survival of tort actions and interlocutory appeals.

Mr. Sweetman has served as lead counsel in the successful defense of numerous insurance coverage, warehouse, transit and property damage actions involving claims substantially in excess of one million dollars and has successfully concluded many substantial subrogation claims. He is a member of the state and federal bars of New Jersey, the State Bar of New York, the Southern and Eastern United States District Courts of New York, the State Bar of Connecticut, as well as a member of the American Bar Association and the Transportation Lawyers Association.