Neil Covone brings decades of legal experience to the firm’s Appellate and Coverage practice group. With a focus on insurance coverage and litigation, Neil also provides trial and litigation support to the firm’s other practice areas. He regularly provides invaluable insights into coverage issues, along with strategic risk analysis and claim management advice.

Having honed his skills for nearly three decades, Neil’s background encompasses defending product manufacturers, premises owners and businesses in wrongful death and catastrophic personal injury cases through to verdict. His extensive trial experience uniquely positions him to provide clients with a practical perspective on insurance coverage and insurance litigation matters.

Neil holds an “AV” peer review rating by Martindale-Hubbell and is a member of the Florida Bar and the United States District Court for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida.

• Appellate Practice and Litigation Support/Consulting
• First-Party Property: Personal and Commercial
• Hospitality and Retail
• Insurance Coverage
• Premises Liability
• Products Liability

Education

• Florida State University (J.D.,1995)

  Honors: Member, Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

• Wake Forest University (B.A., cum laude, 1991)

• State of Florida 1995
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida 1996
• U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida 2006

• Kubicki Draper Appellate and Coverage Practice Group, Member
• Kubicki Draper Construction Practice Group, Member
• Kubicki Draper Hospitality, Retail, and Premises Liability Practice Group, Member
• Kubicki Draper First Party Practice Group, Member
• Kubicki Draper Pre-Suit Practice Group, Member
• Florida Bar Association
• Defense Research Institute (DRI)

• Certified Continuing Education Instructor, State of Florida

• “AV Preeminent” by Martindale Hubbell
• Recipient, John Edward Smith Child Advocacy Award from Lawyers for Children America, Inc., for service as Attorney Guardian Ad Litem in FL state criminal courts 2003

• “The Role of Coverage in the Construction Puzzle,” Kubicki Draper Construction Conference, 2024
• “What Attorneys Look for in Claims Files,” Sedgwick CMS, Deerfield, IL April 2010
• “Parents in Time Out: Assigning Blame for Mis-Installation in Child Restraint Cases,” DRI’s Children’s Products SLG, Phoenix, AZ February 2008

• Contributing Author, “The Parental Negligence Doctrine: A 50 State Compendium,” prepared for DRI Product Liability Conference, New Orleans, LA April 2011
• Coordinating and Contributing Author, “Consequential Damages: A 50 State Compendium,” prepared for Hinshaw & Culbertson, LLP, Ft. Lauderdale, FL May 2012

Prior to practicing law, Neil’s passion and talent extended to the soccer field where he represented the United States at every level, including as a member of the United States World Cup team in Italy 1990.