Michael H. Goldstein

Michael Goldstein is a graduate Columbia College and Fordham University Law School. He has thirty years of experience in reinsurance and insurance coverage disputes, including more than forty arbitration hearings to award, trials, and appeals throughout the United States representing insurers, cedants, and reinsurers.  These disputes have included asbestos bodily injury and property damage claims, environmental claims, bail bond claims, accident, life, health, and workers compensation claims, accountants' and broker's malpractice claims, directors and officers claims, finite risk reinsurance, bankruptcy and insolvency issues, film financing, and entertainment risks.  In litigating in state and federal trial and appellate courts, Mr. Goldstein has represented parties in a number of matters where the courts issued landmark decisions on various reinsurance issues.  Mr. Goldstein is admitted to practice in New York, several federal district courts, and United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits.  He also has lectured and served as chairperson at Mealey's conferences, at the College of Insurance, at the Defense Research Institute, and the American Conference Institute on insurance and reinsurance law topics.  Mr. Goldstein has authored several commentaries in Mealey's Litigation Reports: Reinsurance, an article in Best's Review on the reinsurance treatment of asbestos bodily injury claim settlements, co-authored an article in ReActions on reinsurance arbitration and was a regular contributor to the Journal of Insurance Coverage in 2002.  He recently collaborated with Guy Carpenter in authoring a Guy Carpenter Claims Consulting White Paper regarding Reinsurance Coverage of Declaratory Judgment Expenses.