Attorneys

Steven H. Rosenfeld has provided counseling and representation to sports, recreation and entertainment entities, producers and promoters of live entertainment, venue owners and operators, recreation facilities and nightclubs for over twenty five years. He also works with his clients in the areas of risk management and loss prevention.

Steve provides counsel on and litigates matters arising from contingency insurance policies, including claims for performer non-appearance, promoter abandonment and event cancellation. He provides advice and has lectured on issues arising from the insuring of entertainment and sporting events, nightclubs, recreation facilities, contingency risks and media risks. He has significant experience in the entertainment and media liability and intellectual property arenas, and provides counseling to insurers issuing entertainment and media related errors and omissions policies on underwriting practices, which has included the drafting of applications and policies.

Steve also has a wide range of experience in the areas of insurance coverage analysis and litigation, business litigation, environmental impairment and toxic torts, construction liability and professional liability.

Steve successfully represented Fireworks Entertainment Inc. (a subsidiary of Can West Global Communications) in defeating an attempt by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation to block the broadcast of a Fireworks financed and distributed syndicated television series (Mutant X) on the alleged ground that the series violated Fox’s rights in the X-Men motion picture.

Steve received his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University in 1978 and his Juris Doctor from Pace University School of Law in 1981. He is admitted to practice in New York, and before the United States District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, Northern and Western Districts of New York.

Publications

• Battle Lines Drawn on Enforceability Of Sporting Event-Related Releases
  New York Law Journal (February 2009)

Presentations

• Bats, Balls and Rock 'n Roll: Liability basics for the sports, recreation, live entertainment and hospitality industries
  (North American Contingency Association Annual Conference May, 2012)
• Recent Developments in Insurer Bad Faith and Extra Contractual Liability
  (NACA Conference, May 2008)
• Protecting Your Campers, Protecting Your Camp
  (Tri-State Camp Conference, March 2008)
• Venues and Premises Liability
  (Stadium Managers Association, February 2008)
• Spectator Liability Issues
  (International Conference on Sport and Entertainment Business (ICSEB), November 2007)
• Craig Kelly Sport & Entertainment Law Symposium
  (University of South Carolina, November 2007)
• Protecting the Crowd, Protecting the Venue:
  The Tinderbox of Stadium Liability
  (Stadium Managers Association Annual Seminar, February 2007)
• Concert Promoters, Security Companies and Additional Insurance
  (November 2006)
• Understanding Trademark Law  
  (AIG Training Center, March 2005)