Dennis G. LaGory

Partner

Dennis G. LaGory's experience encompasses a broad range of issues involving the insurance and health care industries, including regulatory compliance, Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) litigation, reinsurance and coverage litigation and arbitrations, and international reinsurance insolvencies. He also handles transactional matters involving health, life and captive insurers.

Mr. LaGory has extensive experience with insurance company insolvencies. He currently represents clients in connection with the liquidations of:

• Home Insurance Company
• Legion Indemnity Company
• Legion Insurance Company
• Reliance Insurance Company

Publications

"New Jersey Appellate Court Rejects Integrity Final Dividend Plan," The Insurance Receiver (Spring 2007)

 

"Notable Insolvency Decisions of 2005," Mealey's Insurance Insolvency & Reinsurance Roundtable (2006)

 

"Recent Developments in Excess, Surplus Lines, and Reinsurance Law," 38 Tort and Insurance Practice Journal 335 (2003)

 

"When Pollutants Don't Pollute: Non-Traditional Environmental Contamination and The Absolute Pollution Exclusion," 13 CGL Rptr. 220-11 (Fall 2001)

 

"Reinsuring Sponsored Health Organizations," Best's Review Life/Health (June 1998)

 

Law and Practice of Insurance Regulation of Health Care Arrangements, (Editor) ABA (1996)

 

"Illinois Appellate Court Issues Significant Asbestos Coverage Ruling: United States v. Admiral Insurance Co.," 17 Insurance Litigation 68 (1995)

 

"Federalism, Separation of Powers, and Individual Liberties," 40 Vanderbilt Law Review 1353 (1987)

 

Speeches and Presentations

"Maximizing Recovery in Cross-Border Insolvencies," ACI Insolvency Conference (2005)

 

"Emerging Theories of Health Plan Liability: Developments in Health Care Reinsurance," Mealey's Insurance Insolvency and Reinsurance Roundtable (1997)

 

"Regulatory Issues Affecting Health Care Captives," IBC Health Care Sponsored Captives Conference (1996)

 

ABA TIPS National Program on Insurance Regulation of Health Care Arrangements (Program Chair) (1996)

 

"How Reinsurance is Regulated," Executive Enterprises Tenth Insurance Regulation Conference (1994)

 

"Update on United States Reinsurance Regulation," Eighth International Reinsurance Congress (1994)

 

"Directors and Officers Insurance Coverage in the Wake of the American Savings and Loan Crisis," Hawksmere/Coopers & Lybrand Reinsurance Conference (1991)

Education

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association
Tort, Trial, and Insurance Practice Section
          Excess, Surplus Lines, and Reinsurance Committee 
                    Vice-Chair

International Association of Insurance Receivers

Federation of Regulatory Counsel, Inc.