Nick J. DiGiovanni is the Chairman of Locke Lord's Reinsurance and Insurance Litigation Groups, which include more than 40 lawyers nationally and internationally. He has more than 35 years of experience in commercial litigation, concentrating in reinsurance and insurance-related issues. His practice and experience involve national and international reinsurance and commercial disputes across all lines of business in litigation, arbitration, insolvency and rehabilitation proceedings. His clients include many of the world's major insurance and reinsurance companies in their roles as ceding companies, reinsurers and retrocessionaires.
Nick J. DiGiovanni is the Chairman of Locke Lord's Reinsurance and Insurance Litigation Groups, which include more than 40 lawyers nationally and internationally. He has more than 35 years of experience in commercial litigation, concentrating in reinsurance and insurance-related issues. His practice and experience involve national and international reinsurance and commercial disputes across all lines of business in litigation, arbitration, insolvency and rehabilitation proceedings. His clients include many of the world's major insurance and reinsurance companies in their roles as ceding companies, reinsurers and retrocessionaires.
As a litigator and trial attorney, Nick has significant experience in defending insurers and reinsurers in arbitrations, jury and non-jury cases in the areas of:
The issues involved in these disputes include, among others, claims or fraud, rescission, scope of coverage, treaty interpretation, reformation, bad faith, punitive damages, extra-contractual obligations, XPO claims and scope of arbitration clauses.
Nick has handled matters involving all forms of insurance and reinsurance agreements and entities, including:
His experience includes numerous arbitrations under the Federal Arbitration Act, a number of different state arbitration acts, and Bermuda and English arbitration law. He has litigated some of the largest and most important insurance and reinsurance disputes in recent history, including:
Nick has also participated in a host of seminars, lectured on numerous topics related to reinsurance disputes, presented a mock reinsurance arbitration before the American Bar Association annual meeting, and has written and lectured on numerous topics, including arbitration, trial practice and procedure, trial ethics and insurance and reinsurance coverage issues. Nick has been a consultant on many industry-wide projects, including the drafting of proposed model arbitration clauses. He is actively involved in the AIDA Reinsurance and Insurance Arbitration Society.
cum laude
, University of Notre Dame, 1980cum laude
, Southern Methodist University, 1977