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Moshe Kaplansky, Law Office & Notary
Moshe Kaplansky Law Office was estab-
lished in 1974 and specializes in liti-
gation and legal representation in the
areas of torts and all types of insurance including
professional liability, elementary insurance, body
damages, computer offenses, bank insurances,
financial damages and losses against insurers in
Israel and abroad. As well as contractual, financial
and tort lawsuits in all insurance areas, commercial
civil law, commercial criminal law, class action and
derivative lawsuits.
The firm employs 20 lawyers in three divisions:
body, property and commercial. The firm’s working
method consists of establishing a team for each
case file, carrying out legal analysis, personal
relationships with the clients, relying on creativ-
ity, initiative, innovation and implementation of
international laws.
The firm is owned by Mr. Moshe Kaplansky, Advo-
cate and Notary, who manages it together with his
son Dr. Kobi Kaplansky, Advocate. The firm is char-
acterized by its family nature and relies on many
years of experience and seniority, employing the
second and third generation of the family.
The firm represents private clients versus all insur-
ance corporations, financial institutions, banks,
High-Tech, electronic and military industries in
Israel and abroad, public and private companies,
aerial, maritime and ground accident injuries suing
the insurance and/or torts. The firm’s clients are
represented in legal procedures of class action,
derivative and collective lawsuits.
Precedents
For over 40 years the firmparticipates in the setting
of leading precedents in the areas of insurance and
torts, life and elementary insurance, professional li-
ability, senior officers in corporations andmaritime
and aerial insurance.
In the frameworkof the Road AccidentVictims Com-
pensation Law, the firm represented claimants at
Neviot Disaster whose winning was the basis for
leading innovative rules and caused a statutory
change in the area.
• Following are some of the legal precedents set by
the firm, in the past and the present, as a leader in
the field, such as Legal accompaniment ofShayetet
13, the combatants of the Navy Commando Unit,
in the “Kishon River Trial”.
• Civil Appeal file no. 3128/94 – Ramat Chen
Synagogue Cooperative Society against Sahar In-
surance Ltd.
Policy interpretation and terms “use of force” com-
pared to “use of force and violence”.
• Adoption of “Reasonable Expectation Doctrine”
of the insurer, by which if the policy does not pro-
vide an unequivocal solution to a situation, the
insurance policy shall be interpreted according to
the insurer’s reasonable expectation.
• Civil Appeal 6507/11 at the Supreme Court,
Loockey Construction Plants Ltd., G.D. Ait Services
Ltd. et al. The contractor’s liability in construction
flaws and personal responsibility independently
of the company’s liability.
• Civil Appeal 753/75 Yocheved, Alon, Erez, Ehud
and Amir Balaga versus the estate of the late Na-
than Taft – vehicle stepping on a car considered as
“road traffic”.
• Civil Appeal 236/81 Zilpa Lassri & al. against
Zion Insurance Ltd. – Expanding the interpretation
of the term “road traffic” and its implementation
even on a case in which the detrimental result
was within the risk caused by the behavior of the
damaging party, according to the “human factor”
test. TheSupreme Court accepted the appeal of the
Lassri family and ruled that the fire that caused the
death and serious injuries of vacationers on the
beach, as a result of a gas container explosion is
a road accident, entitling to compensation by the
Road Accident Victims Compensation Law 1975.
• The verdict recognized for the first time in Israel
the right of a damaged party to be operated at a
hospital abroad, after proving that the success
probability of such operations is higher than in
Israel. This rule was one of the factors that resulted
in amendments to the Road Accident Victims Com-
pensation Law in Israel.
Moshe Kaplansky, Advocate & Notary
Born onMay 1, 1937, married with 3 children and
9 grandchildren and great grandchildren.
At the beginning of his career, Adv. Kaplansky
managed Midgal Insurance Ltd.’s Claims Depart-
ment, being responsible for the management of
lawsuits in all insurance areas.
1969: qualified as a member of the Israel Bar
Association.
1970-1975: acted as Vice President of the Israel
Assessors Union.
1971-1976: acted as a lecturer at the Israeli Insti-
tution for Insurance.
1974-1992: served as defense counselor at the
IDF’s General Staff (Res.).
1982-1992: acted as Head of the National Disci-
plinary Court of the Israel Bar Association.
1989– 2003: acted as a lecturer at the Israel Man-
agement Center.
In 2001 theMinister of Justice, Meir Shitrit, offered
him to be appointed as Supreme Court judge.
Since 1996, Adv. Kaplansky acts as Head of Ethics
Court of the Press Council.
Since 2010 the firm is ranked at Dun’s 100 as
one of the most outstanding law firms in Israel
in the areas of torts and insurance and one of
the “100managers” leading social liability in the
framework of “Shiur Aher” Association.
Dr. kobi Kaplansky, Advocate
Born 13.6.1965, married + 3
1983-1987: Compulsorymilitary service - Battery
Commander, Major Ret.
1989: Working as an Assessor
1989-1992: LL.BAnglia ruskin university.
1994: Joined the Israel Bar Association.
2004-2003: Bachelor’s degree in law - Bar-Ilan
University LL.M.
2010: Doctor (PhD) Anglia ruskin university.
The office has 45 employees including Dr. Kobi
Kaplansky, Adv., member of the Israel Bar Associa-
tion since 1994, Adv. Gali Kaplansky, Adv. ChenGi-
lad and a total of 20 salaried lawyers and interns,
pre-interns and administrative secretarial team.
The firm operates in a 7 stories building, being
fully occupied by the firm’s staff, completely com-
puterized, equipped and compartmentalized.
Esta b l i s h e d
1974
L i n e o f B u s i n ess
Torts and Insurance
8 Beit Hilel St., Tel Aviv 6701708
Tel: 972-3-5628292
Fax:972-3-5628303
Moshe Kaplansky
Adv. Founder & Owner
Dr. Kobi Kaplansky
Adv., Manager