Nicholas M. Insua

Nick is a partner in the firm’s New York and Princeton offices who focuses his practice on insurance recovery litigation, arbitration, and counseling.

Nick represents policyholder clients in catastrophic first-party property damage and business interruption claims. He is co-author, with partner Rich Lewis, of Business Income Insurance Disputes, a leading treatise on business interruption and time-element insurance issues. In his third-party liability coverage work, Nick represents companies and executives under D&O and E&O policies, and has represented clients under general liability insurance policies for all manner of underlying claims, including long-tail environmental and asbestos claims that have involved complicated coverage and allocation issues. He has also handled matters under employment practices liability policies, inland marine insurance policies, and fidelity and crime policies.

Nick has gone to verdict in jury and non-jury trials on several cases, and has worked on reinsurance arbitrations, including domestic and foreign confidential arbitrations. He has litigated cases in federal and state courts around the country and has arbitrated domestically and internationally in London, Bermuda, and most recently in Spain. Nick also serves as a party-appointed arbitrator.