Rick Rosenblum represents businesses and individuals internationally in high stakes disputes. Mr. Rosenblum’s single-minded focus is to deliver creative and successful solutions and results. Specializing in insurance and reinsurance litigation and arbitration, Mr. Rosenblum’s recent matters include—

• a life insurer in a dispute involving variable annuity death benefit reinsurance
• a Bermuda reinsurer in an arbitration involving a finite retrocessional casualty aggregate stop loss treaty
• a Bermuda reinsurer in an arbitration over XOL treaty asbestos/silica and pollution losses
• London market insurers in disputes involving directors & officers (D&O), professional indemnity (PI) and excess insurance for a failed financial services company
• a domestic ceding insurer in reinsurance arbitration over liability transfers made pursuant to § 51 of the English Insurance Companies Act of 1982
• a securities broker-dealer in a series of lawsuits arising from alleged violations of FINRA rules
• a domestic property & casualty (P&C) company in litigation against state insurance department regarding hurricane claims
• a domestic reinsurer in a dispute with a special deputy receiver in Texas’s first ever insurer rehabilitation proceeding
• a national retailer in the overhaul of its risk management program (serving as national coordinating counsel), leading to substantial reduction in overall program expenses
• a health insurer in a multistate putative class action involving the Department of Defense’s Tri-Care program
• a life insurer in a putative national ERISA class action
• London market insurers in disputes involving tax shelter coverage disputes
• major insurers in more than 350 mold exposure lawsuits
• a law firm alleged to have committed legal malpractice in defending death and brain damage injury claims
• a major international financial services company evaluating the prospects of moving data to an international location for storage.

Mr. Rosenblum has also served as an expert witness in a reinsurance dispute pending in the High Court of Justice—Queen’s Bench Division—London arising from the scope of a commutation agreement. He regularly speaks at seminars on insurance and business issues, most recently at the 2007 ARIAS Fall Conference in New York; the 2008 ACI Reinsurance Conference in New York; the 2009 Spring ARIAS conference; the 2010 Insurance and Reinsurance Insolvency Roundtable; the 2010 Oil in the Gulf: Litigation and Insurance Coverage Conference in Atlanta; the 2010 ARIAS Arbitrator Intensive Training Workshop; the February 2011 ARIAS Educational Seminar; and CLE programs at Chartis Insurance, XL Insurance, Munich Re, Lincoln National and Ace. Mr. Rosenblum’s recent publications include “Electronic Discovery and Reinsurance Arbitration: An Update,” ARIAS-U.S. Quarterly, First Quarter 2008, and “Obtaining Non-Party Evidence in Arbitration,” ARIAS-U.S. Quarterly, Third Quarter 2009.

Mr. Rosenblum has been recognized as a leading Texas insurance attorney in the 2010 and 2011 editions of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Mr. Rosenblum has repeatedly received recognition of his peers as a Texas “Super Lawyer.” In 2011, he was awarded the Partner Recognition Award for the firm’s San Antonio office in honor of his outstanding contributions to the mentoring and professional development of associates and counsel. Mr. Rosenblum has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2012 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the practice areas of commercial litigation and insurance law.

Mr. Rosenblum received his B.S. magna cum laude in political science in 1985 from Texas A&M University, where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Sigma Alpha, Pi Alpha Alpha and Phi Eta Sigma honor societies and was selected for the Undergraduate Fellows Program. He received his J.D. in 1988 from the University of Texas School of Law. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the American Bar Association. He served on the State Bar and is a member of the Pattern Jury Charge Committee from 2007-2009 and the AIDA Reinsurance and Insurance Arbitration Society (ARIAS) and its Law Committee. He is also a lifetime fellow of the San Antonio and Texas Bar Foundations. He is admitted to practice before all U.S. District Courts of Texas, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 2nd and 5th Circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Mr. Rosenblum serves on the board of trustees of the United Way of San Antonio and on Akin Gump’s firmwide diversity committee. Mr. Rosenblum also serves on the board of SAMMinistries.