Goldstein, Michael H.
Michael H. Goldstein 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 RAA conferences and seminars, 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 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 has also collaborated with Guy Carpenter in authoring a Guy Carpenter Claims Consulting White Paper regarding Reinsurance Coverage of Declaratory Judgment Expenses.
Mr. Goldstein is a graduate of Columbia College and Fordham University Law School.
MEMBERSHIPS/HONORS
- New York County Lawyers' Association
- Recognized in Benchmark Litigation as a National Insurance Litigation Star
- Recognized in Super Lawyers
- AV Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
PUBLICATIONS
- Co-Author, 2008 Guy Carpenter Global Claims Consulting White Paper: Reinsurance Coverage of Declaratory Judgment Expenses.
- Co-Author, "Reinsurer's Obligation to Follow Allocation Decisions Made by Cedents," Journal of Insurance Coverage, Fall, 2002.
- Co-Author, “Rescission of a Reinsurance Contract: Is Scienter Required?” Journal of Insurance Coverage, Summer, 2002.
- Co-Author, “Service of Suit Clauses Should Not Defeat the Arbitrability of Reinsurance Disputes,” Journal of Insurance Coverage, Spring, 2002.
- Co-Author, “To Arbitrate or Not to Arbitrate,” Global Reinsurance, Fall, 2000.
- Author, "For Whom Does Bellefonte Toll? It Tolls For Thee," Mealey's Litigation Report: Reinsurance, August 13, 1998.
- Author, "Kissing Cousins Or Distant Relations? When Late Notices is Prejudicial To Excess Insurance But Not to Reinsurance," Mealey's Litigation Report: Reinsurance, November 12, 1997.
- Author, "Bellefonte Lives," Mealey's Litigation Report: Reinsurance, September 24, 1997
- Co-Author, "'Till Death Do Us Part?: Follow the Fortunes and Utmost Good Faith At The End Of The Century," DRI-Excess and Reinsurance Conference, November 1996.
- Author, "Choking on Asbestos Claims" Best's Review, March 1992.
- Co-Author, "Corrupting The System," ReActions, November 1990.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- Presenter, "Climate Change/Natural Disasters," Reinsurance Association of America, September 14-15, 2011.
- Leader, "Contract Mania," RAA Re Basics, May 10, 2011.
- Presenter, "Reinsurance Seminar: London v. New York," MCWG/Reynolds Porter Chamberlain Joint Seminar, London, England, September 23, 2009.
- Panelist, "Creating the Arbitration Framework," Reinsurance Claims & Arbitration, American Conference Institute Forum, September 2008.
- Leader, "The Role of Courts in Arbitration," Reinsurance Claims Management, Reinsurance Association of America, September 2008.
- Chairperson, "Reinsurance Regulation, Arbitration and Litigation: Practical Strategies and Critical Updates for In-House and Outside Counsel," Marcus Evans Conferences, October 2006.
- Lecturer, College of Insurance, Defense Research Institute, American Conference Institute, BVR/Mealey’s, Reinsurance Association of America, Marcus Evans.
ADMISSIONS
New York, 1980
Multiple United States District Courts and Circuit Courts of Appeal
EDUCATION
B.A., Columbia University, 1976
J.D., Fordham University School of Law, 1979
