Bakal-Caplan, Emilie L.

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Name: 
Emilie L. Bakal-Caplan
atty_type: 
Partner
P: 
(212) 804-4210
F: 
(212) 344-8066
Location: 
New York, NY
E: 
Ebakal_caplan@moundcotton.com

Emilie Bakal-Caplan has over twenty years of experience litigating insurance, reinsurance, commercial, tort, and contract matters. Her practice covers all aspects of domestic and international insurance-related disputes, including those involving retrospective premium issues, improper claims handling, declaratory judgment expenses, allocation issues, pollution liability, infidelity, lead poisoning, and sexual molestation. Over the years she has handled a diverse range of coverage issues relating to losses arising from hurricanes, floods, blizzards, mechanical failure, avian flu, defective heart valves, and insurance-backed film finance. She also has represented a variety of non-insurance company clients (including diamond and clothing manufacturers, an industrial fan manufacturer, law firms, and authors) in lawsuits involving claims of professional malpractice, fraud, hearing loss, and breach of contract.

Emilie has litigated and handled appeals in state and federal courts throughout the United States. She is admitted to the New York and federal bars, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She has spoken on reinsurance issues at BVR/Mealey's and the Reinsurance Association of America and is a member of the Association of Professional Insurance Women and the AIDA Reinsurance and Insurance Arbitration Society (ARIAS).

Emilie is a gradute of the University of Pennslyvania (cum laude) and Boston University School of Law.

MEMBERSHIPS/HONORS

  • Association of Professional Insurance Women
  • The AIDA Reinsurance and Insurance Arbitration Society (ARIAS)

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

  • Insurance Accounting and Systems Association, Arbitration, November 2002
  • Mealey's Reinsurance 101, February 2004
  • RAA, Reinsurance Claims Management for Claims Professionals, September 2006
  • ARIAS Intensive Arbitrator Training Workshop, March 2007

ADMISSIONS
New York, 1987
United States District Court, Southern District of New York, 1989
United States District Court, Eastern District of New York, 1989
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2001

EDUCATION
B.A., cum laude, University of Pennsylvania, 1982
J.D., Boston University School of Law, 1986