Chaffetz Lindsey LLP

One of only a few disputes-only boutiques in the space, Chaffetz Lindsey LLP‘s New York-based team advises insurers and reinsurers in intricate and high-stakes litigation and arbitration, leveraging the firm’s deep experience with international arbitration to handle matters that traverse several markets, including London and Bermuda. The group is staffed by an experienced team of commercial disputes partners, including veteran practitioner Steven Schwartz, whose experience spans trial, appellate, and arbitration work for insurers and reinsurers, Cecilia Moss, a founding partner with extensive insurance and reinsurance experience that has touched many major industry controversies including COVID-19, asbestos, and environmental contamination, and Charles Scibetta, who takes on high-stakes cases for clients such as AIG concerning a variety of environmental liabilities and other high-profile issues. With over 40 trials and arbitrations under his belt, Peter Chaffetz handles high-profile matters in the reinsurance and insurance spaces, including insolvencies, asbestos, application of aggregate limits, mass torts, and surety disputes, to name a few. Most recently, he was appointed as US counsel for the insolvency practitioners investigating the reinsurance collapse caused by Insurtech company Vesttoo’s fraud. Another cornerstone of the boutique is ’intellectual powerhouse’ Andrew Poplinger, who is well-versed in reinsurance disputes, P&C speciality lines, London-seated Bermuda form arbitrations, and various environmental and extreme weather-related coverage issues. Joshua Anders is trusted by some of the US’s largest insurers to handle coverage disputes concerning product liabilities, defamation, business interruption, fraud, and environmental contamination, and Erin Valentine advises insurers with regard to a vast array of coverage disputes.