A Fort Lauderdale law partner was able to negotiate a multimillion-dollar settlement and insulate his client from further fallout in the wake of a $330 million Ponzi scheme.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Raymond B. Ray approved a $3.2 million settlement in September between the bankruptcy estate for shuttered lending firm 1 Global Capital LLC, the Kopelowitz Ostrow law firm, the firm’s insurer American Alternative Insurance Corp., as well as securities attorneys Jan Douglas Atlas and Andrew Dale Ledbetter. Hinshaw & Culbertson partner Rory Jurman served as AAIC’s coverage counsel in the matter and assisted the parties in finding a mutually agreeable outcome in the dispute.

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