Jason S. Mazer, Esq.
Shareholder
Jason S. Mazer, a founding shareholder of Cimo Mazer Mark, is committed to efficient, creative, and passionate advocacy for his clients. Jason regularly represents individual, corporate, and municipal policyholders as well as third-party claimants in all manner of disputes with insurance carriers. Having tried insurance coverage and bad faith cases to policyholder verdicts, he also routinely negotiates with insurance carriers to achieve cost-effective and client-focused outcomes. His industry experience includes financial, professional, health care, hospitality, manufacturing, retail, aviation, food services, construction, agriculture, media, entertainment, and technology.
A proven leader in policyholder insurance recovery, insurance coverage litigation, insurer bad faith, and unfair insurance practices, Jason also represents bankruptcy trustees, receivers, and court-appointed fiduciaries in complex business litigation involving director and officer, error and omission, and commercial general liability insurers. Additionally, Jason represents healthcare providers and hospitals in reimbursement disputes with commercial payors. He is a frequent teacher, accomplished author, and media consultant on insurance law and unfair insurer practices.
Born in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and raised in New York, Jason received his Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University in 1994, and his Juris Doctor, Order of the Coif, from Washington University School of Law in 1998. Jason served as a volunteer in the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, prosecuting pattern or practice employment discrimination cases. Jason then joined the Miami office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, briefly representing management in labor and employment disputes.
In October 1999, Jason joined the newly-formed Ver Ploeg & Lumpkin, P.A. and was elected a shareholder in 2004. He has spent nearly two decades growing his insurance recovery and commercial litigation practice by earning the trust of his clients and developing a well-deserved reputation among his colleagues for effective and professional advocacy.
In 2018, Jason joined forces with longtime collaborators David C. Cimo and Marilee A. Mark to form Cimo Mazer Mark PLLC.
Education
- J.D., Washington University School of Law, in St. Louis, Order of the Coif, 1998
- B.A., Tufts University, 1994
Professional Recognition
- Rated AV Preeminent® 5.0 out of 5 Peer Review Rating™, Martindale-Hubbell®
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America
- Insurance, 2013 – Present
- Insurance, Commercial Litigation and Employment Law, 2015 – Present
- Selected “Lawyer of the Year,” Employment Law/Individuals, 2017
- Listed, Florida Trend
- Legal Elite, Insurance
- Listed, South Florida Legal Guide
- Top Lawyer, Insurance Litigation, 2013 – Present
- Top Up and Comer, Insurance Litigation, 2009-2012
- Listed, Florida Super Lawyers, 2013 – Present
- Top 100 Lawyers in Miami, 2018
- Listed, Corporate America, Legal Elite
- Best for Insurance Law, Florida, 2016
- Wall Street Journal and Miami Magazine, Top Attorneys in Florida
- Fellow, American College of Coverage and Extracontractual Counsel, College for the Highest Standards of Creativity, Ethics, Efficiency, and Scholarship
Admissions and Memberships
- Florida Bar
- United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- United States District Court, Southern District of Florida
- United States District Court, Middle District of Florida
- United States District Court, Northern District of Florida
- United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Florida
- United States Bankruptcy Court, Middle District of Florida
Professional and Community Engagement
- Board of Directors, Educate Tomorrow
- American Bar Association, Litigation Section
- Business Bankruptcy and Insolvency Litigation Sub-Committee, 2017 – Present
- Former Co-Chair, Bad Faith Sub-Committee, 2010 – 2016
- Former Co-Chair, Life, Health and Disability Sub-Committee
- Editor In Chief, Coverage, Official Journal of the American Bar Association’s Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee, 2015 – Present
- Former Co-Chair, Extracontractural and Bad-Faith Claims Litigation Committee, of the American College of Coverage and Extracontractural Counsel
- Member, Miami-Dade County Bar Association
- Member, American Bankruptcy Institute