mantin@gkar-law.com

Mark Antin graduated from Temple University Law School in 1975. He joined Gennet, Kallmann, Antin & Robinson in 1977, became a partner of the firm in 1984, and now serves as its co-managing partner. He has over 28 years of trial experience, specializing in commercial insurance and complex, large loss claims in the state and federal courts, including insurance coverage and subrogation matters, first party arson, fraud defense and similar matters. Mr. Antin has been involved in precedent setting legal decisions including several appellate decisions involving the New Jersey statute of repose, Rolnick v. Gilson & Sons, Inc., 260 N.J. Super. 564 (App. Div. 1992) and Wayne Tp. Bd. of Ed. v. Strand Century, Inc., 172 N.J. Super. 296 (App. Div. 1980). Other important decisions include Culver v. Insurance Co. of North America, 115 N.J. 451(1989), regarding proration agreements with insureds in subrogation matters, Vesley v. Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Company, 93 N.J. 323 (1983), regarding attorney’s fees in first party coverage actions; Sassano v. BLT Discovery, Inc., 245 N.J. Super. 539 (App. Div. 1991), a first party arson/fraud matter which considered the relationship of an uninsured tenant and its landlord to insurance coverage, as well as the admissibility of a judgment of conviction for arson; and Lee’s Hawaiian Islander, Inc. v. Safety First Products, Inc., 195 N.J. Super. 493 (App. Div. 1984), in which allocation of liability among co-defendants in a products liability case, contribution and prejudgment interest were among the issues resolved by the court.

Mr. Antin currently represents Consolidated Edison and its property insurers' in claims valued at over one billion dollars involving the collapse of Seven World Trade Center and damages caused by the collapse of the Twin Towers. Not long before taking on this 9/11 case, Mr. Antin served as lead counsel and member of the plaintiffs’ committee in a complex industrial fire litigation which was resolved for over $60,000,000.00. He has successfully litigated dozens of other cases of similar magnitudes as plaintiff's counsel and as defense counsel. Niche specialties include roof failure, complex fire origin cause and spread, structural engineering cases and cases involving unusual valuation issues including operatic costumes and celebrity photographs.

Mark is certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney. He is also a member of the New York and Florida Bars, the Bars of the federal courts of New York and New Jersey, and the Bar of the United States Supreme Court, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, and numerous bar associations. He is a member of the Loss Executives Association, the Property Loss Research Bureau, the National Fire Protection Association, the International Association of Arson Investigators, and the National Association of Subrogation Professionals. He has conducted seminars for the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education and has lectured to lawyers and industry groups on property insurance and subrogation.

Mark serves on the Board of Trustees of the Princeton-Blairstown Center, a non-profit outdoor, experiential education provider of services to at-risk youth. When time permits, he also enjoys golf, tennis and reading fiction.