About
For 35 years, Robert has specialized in insurance recuperation on behalf of policyholders. As Chair of the Insurance Recovery group and a member of the firm’s Litigation exercise, Robert litigates complicated disputes towards coverage corporations on behalf of companies in search of insurance for all way of claims involving every form of hazard and exposure consisting of the ones arising out of merchandise, securities, administrators & officials, electricity, automobile, financial institutions, medical devices and health, among others.
Robert has successfully argued precedent-putting appeals within the 2d, 1/3, and fourth U.S. Courts of Appeals, in addition to the California Court of Appeal, San Francisco Division. Among other noteworthy representations, in MBIA, Inc. v Federal Ins. Co., 652 Fed. 3rd 152 (2d Cir. 2011), Robert received a sweeping first impression selection requiring insurance groups to pay defense prices from the initiation of government investigations before match become filed. This choice allowed groups to get entry to substantial amounts of coverage that mechanically are contested by means of the coverage enterprise. The MBIA decision additionally granted insurance for Special Litigation Counsel, a price incurred inside the defense of by-product actions that coverage agencies also frequently contest. Robert also led a group on behalf of International Paper Company via a series of trials, mediations and arbitrations that recouped nearly $1 billion in costs which includes damages, magnificence counsel prices, notice packages and administrative costs. Robert’s crew additionally completed a $90mm verdict towards the number one insurance corporation that didn't protect International Paper in horrific faith. The International Paper Company underlying litigation started as a potentially ruinous ultimate of its type “force-by” class certification in which Robert to begin with led a court docket-mandated mediation that settled the dispute previous to the resolution of the coverage litigation.
Robert’s exercise is countrywide and international in scope.
›
›
Location
Legal Issues
- Arbitration & Mediation
- Business Arbitration, Consumer Arbitration, Family Arbitration
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- International Law
- Human Rights, Imports & Exports
- Commercial Litigation & Trial
- Global Litigation
- Insurance Recovery
- International Arbitration & ADR
Costs
Certificates
Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Principal
Paley Rothman
2018 - Partner
Howrey LLP
2011
Educations
Graduation year: 1979
Graduation year: 1975
