Joshua Blosveren

Practice Areas

Joshua L. Blosveren has a long record of successful advocacy in highly visible and valuable commercial disputes. Josh’s work includes representing domestic and international clients in a diverse range of complex business litigation matters, including insurance recovery for policyholders and matters involving commercial disputes, securities claims, FINRA arbitrations, intellectual property, and civil RICO. Josh’s insurance recovery practice encompasses advising and representing clients in connection with a wide array of policies and coverages, including general liability, directors & officers, errors & omissions, media, property, business interruption, representation & warranty, cyber, cargo & storage, fidelity & crime, and food & beverage.

Josh has successfully litigated and tried cases and argued appeals in numerous state and federal courts and arbitral forums. Recently, he secured a win for Syngenta at the Delaware Superior Court in a long-running coverage dispute arising from underlying lawsuits alleging bodily injury from exposure to the herbicide paraquat. In an important ruling for policyholders, the court narrowly construed a pre-1985 pollution exclusion, limiting it to traditional environmental pollution and rejecting the insurer’s attempt to expand it to product-use claims.

Career

Before joining Cohen Ziffer in 2025, Josh practiced at two international law firms and a litigation boutique.

Professional Memberships

• Commercial Division Advisory Council

• American Bar Association, Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, Litigation & Trial Practice Committee, Vice Chair

• American Bar Association, Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, CLE Board Standing Committee, Vice-Chair

• Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal, Editor-in-Chief

• American College of Coverage Counsel, Fellow

• American Bar Foundation, Fellow

• Bottom Line New York, Leadership Council

Awards

Education

Work Highlights

Among other wins, Josh recently secured a ruling from the New York Supreme Court’s Appellate Division affirming that StoneX Commodity Solutions is entitled to coverage for the loss of over 500,000 bushels of soybeans resulting from a warehouse owner’s fraud. Josh also won a trial in the Delaware Superior Court for Syngenta in a case implicating hundreds of millions of dollars of losses arising from thousands of personal injury claims and then secured a precedential decision from the Delaware Supreme Court upholding the trial court’s two summary judgment rulings in favor of Syngenta. In another significant case, Josh secured an appellate victory for Fabrique Innovations, Inc. over Federal Insurance Company in which the Second Circuit affirmed the district court’s decision awarding Fabrique not only the full amount of its loss but also the full amount of the fees it incurred in attempting to mitigate the loss in a bankruptcy litigation. He is also representing Cox in a dispute against its multimedia liability insurers involving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Josh is admitted to practice before the following courts:

• U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York

• U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York