Profile: Mary A Lopatto

Insurance and Reinsurance

Biography: Insurance & Reinsurance

Mary A Lopatto is a former chairman of ARIAS-US and a senior member of the insurance and reinsurance practice group at Chadbourne & Parke LLP. She has more than 20 years' experience in insurance and reinsurance dispute resolution.

In recent years, Lopatto has represented clients on both the ceding and assuming side in several complex and large-scale arbitrations of dispute under the Bermuda form and subject to the Bermuda International Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1993. These particular matters concerned product liability, environmental liability and reinsurance allocation. Leading a team of lawyers from the firm's Washington, DC and London offices, she is currently handling major arbitrations involving the reinsurance of Bermuda captives with respect to professional liability and product liability issues.

Throughout her career, Lopatto has represented clients in arbitrations and in litigation in US federal and state courts. She has extensive experience with both property/casualty and life and health insurance and reinsurance disputes. In addition, she has counselled clients with respect to financial reinsurance matters, contract wordings, insolvency issues and regulatory requirements.

Lopatto received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University and her Juris Doctor degree from Catholic University, where she served as an associate editor of Law Review.