Michael A. Hamilton

Practice Areas

Global Insurance Services

Management and Professional Liability

Cybersecurity and Data Privacy

Environmental Law

Career

As a leader of Goldberg Segalla’s Global Insurance Services team in Pennsylvania, Michael Hamilton focuses his practice on environmental, professional liability, construction defect, transportation, and business torts/advertising injury claims.

Mike handles sophisticated and high-exposure insurance coverage claims and commercial litigation. He has been lead defense counsel in class action litigation, representing insurance companies, self-insurers, and transportation entities. He also has extensive appellate experience, arguing numerous appeals in state and federal courts across the country.

Mike has more than 30 years of experience handling insurance coverage claims and litigation on behalf of major insurers throughout the United States. He has an extensive background in environmental claims under commercial general liability policies and specialty environmental policies, and has assisted clients with claims involving the application of the pollution exclusion, surface and groundwater contamination, ground pollution, and hydrofracking.

Mike has also advised clients on a number of significant claims involving data privacy, intellectual property, false advertising, and business torts. His experience includes counseling carriers on policy form wording with respect to data breaches, cyber liability, and intellectual property infringement claims. He was recently involved in a case that was closely watched by the insurance industry involving insurance coverage for a highly publicized data breach. Mike was also involved in two groundbreaking cases holding that claims for faulty workmanship in construction were not covered under CGL policies. He has represented insurance companies in bankruptcy court and has formulated strategies for carriers to best protect their rights when policyholders are in bankruptcy. He has also represented clients in commercial disputes and litigation, including matters relating to contractual indemnity, transportation accidents, and governmental immunity.

Contact Mike at [email protected]

Professional Memberships

International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC), Insurance and Reinsurance Committee, Vice Chair of Former Chairs, 2018-24

International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC), Chair, Eastern Pennsylvania State Committee

American College of Coverage Counsel (ACCC), Fellow

American College of Coverage Counsel (ACCC), Board of Regents Executive Committee, 2025-27

American College of Coverage Counsel (ACCC), Insurance Law Symposium, Co-Chair, 2023

American Bar Foundation, Fellow

Defense Research Institute (DRI), Insurance Law Committee

Claims and Litigation Management Alliance (CLM)

Publications

“What is the Availability of Insurance Coverage for Claims of Sexual Misconduct and Abuse?” Co-Author, University of Connecticut School of Law Insurance Law Review, Journal of the American College of Coverage Counsel, Spring 2026

“Pennsylvania,” Co-Author, Insurance Policy Rescission Compendium – DRI, 2019

“Avoiding Bad Faith and Other Emerging Issues Involving Eroding Limits Policies,” Co-Author, IADC Committee Newsletter, October 2019

“Accessory Overload: Wearable Technology’s Impact on the Insurance Industry,” Co-Author, IN Magazine, Summer 2016

Education

Awards