Rick Rosenblum represents businesses and individuals internationally in high stakes disputes. Mr. Rosenblum’s single-minded focus is to deliver collaborative, creative and successful solutions and results. Specializing in insurance and reinsurance litigation and arbitration, Mr. Rosenblum’s recent representations include—
- 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 D&O, PI, and Excess insurance for a failed financial services company
- serving 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
- 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 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.
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. He 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 and the 2010 Oil in the Gulf: Litigation and Insurance Coverage Conference in Atlanta. 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 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Mr. Rosenblum has repeatly received recognition of his peers as a Texas “Super Lawyer.”