Emilie Bakal-Caplan

Emilie Bakal-Caplan has over thirty-five years of experience litigating insurance, reinsurance, commercial, tort, and contract matters. Her practice covers all aspects of domestic and international insurance-related disputes, including those involving retrospective premium issues, improper claims handling, declaratory judgment expenses, allocation issues, pollution liability, infidelity, lead poisoning, and sexual molestation. Over the years she has handled a diverse range of coverage issues relating to losses arising from hurricanes, floods, blizzards, collapse, mechanical failure, avian flu, defective heart valves, and insurance-backed film finance. She has also represented a variety of non-insurance company clients (including diamond and clothing manufacturers, an industrial fan manufacturer, law firms, and authors) in lawsuits involving claims of professional malpractice, fraud, hearing loss, and breach of contract.

Emilie has litigated and handled appeals in state and federal courts throughout the United States. She is admitted to the New York and federal bars, and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, and Seventh Circuits. She has spoken on reinsurance issues at BVR/Mealey’s and the Reinsurance Association of America and is a member of the Association of Professional Insurance Women.

Emilie is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Boston University School of Law.

Honors

• Recognized in Super Lawyers, New York Metro, Insurance Coverage, 2010-2023
• Recognized in Super Lawyers, New York Metro, Women’s Edition, Insurance Coverage, 2021

Memberships

• Association of Professional Insurance Women
• Claims and Litigation Management Alliance

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Speaking Engagements

• Presenter, “Streamlining the Resolution of First Party Insurance Property Damage Claims,” Perrin Natural Disaster Conference, Miami, FL, April 2, 2019
• Presenter, “At the Forefront of Diversity – Women Legal,” Ark Group, New York, NY, June 2011
• Presenter, “Emerging Insurance Coverage & Allocation Issues,” Perrin Conferences, New York, NY, January 2011
• ARIAS Intensive Arbitrator Training Workshop, September 2010
• Eastern Claims Conference, New York, NY, March 2009
• Legal and Strategic Forum on Life Reinsurance, New York, NY, January 2009
• Presenter, “Reinsurance Claims Management for Claims Professionals,” RAA Re Claims, New York, NY, September 2008
• ARIAS Intensive Arbitrator Training Workshop, March 2007
• Presenter, “Reinsurance Claims Management for Claims Professionals,” RAA Re Claims, New York, NY, September 2006
• Presenter, “Reinsurance 101,” Mealey’s, February 2004
• Presenter, “Arbitration,” Insurance Accounting and Systems Association, November 2002