• videocam Live Webinar with Live Q&A
  • calendar_month September 29, 2026 @ 1:00 PM ET/10:00 AM PT
  • signal_cellular_alt Intermediate
  • card_travel Insurance
  • schedule 90 minutes

Insurance Coverage Arbitration: Pros and Cons for Insurers and Policyholders

About the Course

Introduction

This CLE webinar will discuss the pros and cons of replacing the publicly available judiciary with privately financed arbitration proceedings when insurance coverage issues need to be resolved.

Description

It is increasingly common for insurance companies to include non-negotiable provisions in their standard insurance contracts requiring disputes to be resolved outside of court in confidential arbitrations. Policyholders and other contracting parties often pay no attention to these provisions at the time of contract. But if a dispute arises, these provisions—and their implications—suddenly take center stage. In this program, an experienced panel will review, in a point-counterpoint format, the pros and cons of replacing the publicly available judiciary with privately financed arbitration proceedings. 

Listen to our esteemed panel comprised of Andrew Nadolna, a JAMS arbitrator with an almost unmatched specialty in insurance and reinsurance arbitrations, and Rhonda Orin, a partner at Anderson Kill with more than 40 years of experience resolving insurance disputes through trial (bench and jury), arbitration, mediation, and settlement, discuss this very significant issue.

Presented By

Andrew Nadolna
Arbitrator, Mediator, Neutral Evaluator, Court-Appointed Neutral
JAMS

Mr. Nadolna is a mediator and arbitrator with experience in a wide range of matters including those in the complex business and commercial, construction, class action and mass tort, cryptocurrency, cybersecurity and privacy, employment, environmental (including PFAS/Forever Chemicals) insurance and reinsurance, international and cross-border, personal injury and torts, and professional liability realms. He is ranked among the top mediators nationwide by Chambers and Partners in its 2023 – 2026 USA Guides. Mr. Nadolna also has substantial experience handling underlying claims and coverage disputes involving personal injury, invasion of privacy, sexual abuse, and sexual assault (including those involving religious and educational institutions) matters. He has also worked on cases involving cyber, bitcoin, technology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and energy.

Rhonda D. Orin
Office Managing Shareholder, Washington, DC, and Co-Chair of the Climate Change and Disaster Recovery Group
Anderson Kill

Ms. Orin represents policyholders in coverage cases nationwide. She is distinguished by her extensive experience as lead counsel in multiple multi-million-dollar insurance trials, both bench and jury. Ms. Orin has substantial appellate experience as well, having argued before the highest courts of several states, and appeared in two cases before U.S. Supreme Court. She is distinguished further by the unusual breadth of her substantive knowledge. In addition to expertise with first-party property damage and business interruption claims, third-party tort and environmental liability claims, directors & officers and errors & omissions claims, Ms. Orin also is knowledgeable about cyber liability, fidelity bonds, disability insurance policies and the myriad of health insurance and ERISA issues that arise in the context of modern healthcare.

Credit Information
  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.


  • Live Online


    On Demand

Date + Time

  • event

    Tuesday, September 29, 2026

  • schedule

    1:00 PM ET/10:00 AM PT

I. The increasing role of arbitration in insurance coverage disputes 

A. Federal Arbitration Act (FAA)

II. How arbitration differs from litigation and mediation 

III. Essential ingredients of a successful arbitration

A. Similarly situated contracting parties

B. Qualified arbitrators

C. Appropriate rules and procedures

IV. How to choose among private providers

A. JAMS 

B. American Arbitration Association (AAA) (nonprofit)

C. Specialty providers, like ARIAS

D. Private individuals

V. Mandatory arbitration provisions in insurance policies

A. What to seek 

B. What to avoid

VI. Arbitration report card

A. Pros

B. Cons

The panel will discuss these and other important issues:

  • Why has mandatory arbitration increased?
  • What is the cost of insisting on judicial resolution?
  • What data exists to support how trials and arbitration compare on the issue of fairness?