Insurance & Reinsurance

Steptoe’s coverage attorneys have represented their insurance and reinsurance clients in over 30 different domestic and foreign jurisdictions.

In one of the largest insurance, reinsurance, and surety practices in the nation, we litigate and counsel clients on a broad array of issues ranging from hazardous product and environmental insurance coverage issues to reinsurance fraud.  Steptoe attorneys have been involved in many of the cutting-edge developments in these areas of the law.  Our practice involves litigation at both the trial and appellate levels, arbitration, and client counseling and advice regarding a broad spectrum of coverage and reinsurance issues.  In addition, our London and Brussels offices have experience in contentious, transactional, and regulatory insurance matters.

We have extensive experience in representing insurers in many large, complex declaratory judgment actions regarding asbestos and other product claims, and environmental and hazardous waste claims.  Our reinsurance practice has also involved large, complex cases and a variety of issues including coverage, good faith, fraud, RICO and breach of fiduciary duty. 

Our practice covers the entire spectrum of insurance and reinsurance:

• Asbestos, Silica, & Related Bankruptcy Litigation
• Environmental Coverage Litigation & Counseling
• Financial Products Coverage Litigation & Counseling
• Hazardous Products/Toxic Torts Coverage Litigation & Counseling
• Insurance Coverage & Bad Faith
• London and Brussels Insurance, Reinsurance, & Regulatory Practice
• Reinsurance Litigation, Arbitration, & Counseling
  

Noteworthy

• Chambers UK (2008): Insurance: General Claims (London) and Angus Rodger (Insurance: General Claims)
• Legal Times 2008 Almanac of Leading Lawyers: Roger Warin
• BTI Client Service All Star Team (2008): Toni Ianniello
• Euromoney Expert Guide (2007): Stephen Fennell, Toni Ianniello, Harry Lee, James Rocap, Angus Rodger, Guy Soussan, Roger Warin, Frank Winston, and Philip Woolfson
• Chambers USA 2007, America's Leading Business Lawyers: Insurance: Insurer Firms (District of Columbia); Insurance: Insurer Firms (National)
• Chambers UK (2006): London Insurance/Reinsurance practice
• Euromoney Expert Guide (2006): Stephen Fennell, Toni Ianniello, James Rocap, Roger Warin, Philip Woolfson
• Best Lawyers in America (2006): Roger Warin
• UK Legal 500 (2006): Insurance and Reinsurance Litigation

Success Stories

• Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers

News

• Steptoe Hires Reinsurance Partner
• Toni Ianniello Named to BTI Client Service All-Star Team for Law Firms 2008

Events

• Developments in Reinsurance Arbitrations: What Works and What Does Not in the US, Bermuda, and the UK
• The European Commission report on business insurance: what happens next?
• Stephanie Dunn Co-Chairs, Harry Lee and John Kavanagh Speak at, Mealey's Reinsurance Conference

Speaking Engagements

• Chair, Inter-Pacific Bar Association annual conference, Century City
• Jim Rocap Speaks at PLI Seminar in New York on Insurance Coverage
• Distribution of Insurance Contracts Conference, Luxembourg
• Antonia Ianniello Speaking at ABA Standing Committee on Lawyers' Professional Liability Conference in Arizona

Publications

• Reaction to Consultation on BER
  April 25, 2008, Insurance Day
• Briefing: Implementation of the Gender Equality Directive into French insurance law
  April 2008
• FSA's Discussion Paper on Transparency, Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest in the Commercial Insurance Market
  April 2008
• Insurers call for more debate on Solvency II
  February 11, 2008, Business Insurance Europe