Amy J. Kallal is a partner at Mound Cotton. She has over twenty years of experience in all aspects of complex litigation and arbitration. She has arbitrated dozens of high-stakes reinsurance disputes to final award and has litigated a variety of cases in state and federal courts. Amy also provides advice to clients in third-party direct insurance matters.
Newsroom
Client Alerts
- Reinsurance Arbitration Awards — An Uphill Battle?
- Why Legacy Insurance Coverage May Not Protect Early Adopters of Bitcoin – Law360
- Same Virus, Different Outcomes
- When Emails Are Spoofed Does Cyber Coverage Go Poof? – Medidata Solutions, Inc. v Fed Ins Co, 729 Fed App’x 117 (2d Cir 2018)
- New Year; Same Crisis: Facts & News on the Opioid Epidemic
Bylined Articles
- “Maintaining the Confidentiality of Awards When Petitioning for Relief in Court,” co-authored with Andrea Fort, ARIAS-US, September 1, 2021
- “Why Legacy Insurance May Not Protect Adopters Of Bitcoin,” co-authored with Andrea Fort and Andrew Romano, Law360, June 10, 2021
- “America Has An Opioid Problem: Who’s Going To Pay To Fix It?,” co-authored with Tyler Flynn, AIRROC Matters, Spring Issue, 2019, and General Insurance Insights, the Society of Actuaries, June 2019
- “Honorable Engagement Clauses and the Powers of Arbitrators: Has First State v. National Casualty Changed the Landscape?,” co-authored with Andrea Fort, ARIAS-U.S. Quarterly, Third Quarter, 2015
Representative Matters
- Representing insurer in coverage action seeking recoveries for over 1,000 lawsuits arising from exposure to ethylene oxide.
- Advising cedants and reinsurers on a wide variety of reinsurance coverage and contract issues arising under treaties, facultative certificates, and large loss portfolio transfer agreements, including collateral, warranties, and subject business.
- Regularly providing coverage advice and representation to direct insurers relating to all manner of claims under a variety of policies, including commercial general liability, excess, professional liability.
- Represented ceding companies in a “lost policy” dispute and an arbitration seeking coverage under reinsurance treaties for asbestos claims.
- Represented surety company in an arbitration involving construction bonds written by a managing general agent that became insolvent.
- Represented reinsurer in dispute involving cession of lead paint claims involving complex occurrence and allocation issues and bad faith.
- Represented ceding companies and reinsurers in over 30 arbitrations involving underwriting issues, allocation and aggregation of losses, coverage under quota share, excess of loss, catastrophe, and facultative contracts, financial solvency, commutation, bad faith, fraud and rescission claims, pre-answer security and letters of credit, audit rights, and notice issues.
- Represented clients in coverage disputes under Bermuda forms.
- Advised start-up company on reinsurance contract wording.
Press Releases
- 2023 Super Lawyers Recognizes 14 Mound Cotton Attorneys
- 15 Attorneys Recognized in 2022 Super Lawyers, Rising Stars
Credentials
Education
J.D., cum laude, Syracuse University College of Law, 1997; Editor, Journal of Legislation and Policy
M.P.A., Public Administration, Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, 1997
B.A., cum laude, Michigan State University, 1992
Admissions
North Carolina, 2006
New York, 1998
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York
U.S District Court for the District of Connecticut
Membership
ARIAS-US Education Committee
American Bar Association
Association of Professional Insurance Women