Iain A.W. Nasatir, resident in the firm’s Los Angeles office, specializes in and has cultivated a national reputation for his expertise in insurance coverage, reinsurance, insolvency, regulatory and bankruptcy disputes. Currently, he is involved with insurance coverage issues in the firm’s various representations of creditors’ committees and is the in-house go-to counsel for all insurance-related issues as they relate to sexual abuse survivors in chapter 11 bankruptcies, including the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, the Diocese of Buffalo, the Diocese of Rochester, the Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, and the Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. Prior committee representations sought his counsel in sexual-abuse insurance-coverage issues, including the bankruptcies of the Gallup, Stockton, and Davenport dioceses and the Weinstein Company.
Iain’s representations of creditors’ committees concerning insurance coverage issues also include notable non-diocesan sex-abuse-related bankruptcies such as Boy Scouts of America and USA Gymnastics.
Other cases Iain has been involved in revolve around debtors’ obligations for SIRS and deductibles in bankruptcy (e.g., law firms Sedgwick and Heller Ehrman) and the complex interplay between state insurance regulators and bankruptcy-court jurisdiction.
Education
- Williams College; Columbia University (B.A. 1979)
- Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1982)
- Order of Barristers; National Moot Court Team
Bar and Court Admissions
- 1983, New York
- 1991, California
- Creditors’ Committees: Boy Scouts of America; USA Gymnastics
- Fremont General; Superior National; Commonwealth Insurance; Farmers; Certain Underwriters at Lloyds; Reinsurance Association of America
- Insurance Insolvencies: KWELM; Mission Insurance; Transit Insurance; Executive Life
- Vice-chair, ABA Torts & Insurance Practice Section (2006-2007)
- Member, International Association of Insurance Receivers
Lecturer, International Reinsurance Congress; Inter-Pacific Bar Association, Turnaround Management Association, International Association of Insurance Receivers and ABA TIPS Insurance Coverage Programs
- The Rights and Duties of Insurers and Insureds Under Self-Insured Retentions 50 The Brief 44 (Fall 2020)
- Co-author, “Recent Developments in Excess, Surplus Lines, and Reinsurance,” 39ABA Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal 376 (2004)
- “Insurer’s Collapse Highlights Hazards to Investors,” National Law Journal (April 1995)
- “For All the Wrong Reasons D & O Claims Should Diminish,” Risk Management (Oct. 1994)
- “Whose Contract Is It Anyway?” Mealey’s Litigation Reports Reinsurance (Aug. 1994)
- Co-author, “Communications Under Wraps,” Best’s Review (Sept.1992)
- Co-Author, “Late Notice: In Harm’s Way,” Best’s Review (Sept.1991)
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