Andrew Frankel
USA Guide 2024
Band 4 : Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Insurer
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About
Provided by Andrew Frankel
Practice Areas
Andy Frankel is Head of Simpson Thacher’s Insurance and Reinsurance Practice. He has more than 30 years of experience successfully representing clients in a wide variety of complex disputes, including insurance, securities, product liability and other commercial litigation and investigations. Andy has successfully litigated cases in state and federal trial and appellate courts throughout the United States and in domestic and international arbitrations. Representative insurance-related experience includes defending insurers in complex coverage disputes and bankruptcy proceedings involving a variety of mass tort litigations, representing insurers in direct actions, claims alleging bad faith, environmental coverage disputes, claims involving dissolved or defunct policyholders and court-appointed receivers, claims involving alleged disparate impact liability, representing insurers in market conduct examinations and other government investigations, and a wide range of other matters on behalf of insurers.
Career
Joined the Firm in 1992. Became Partner in 1999.
Professional Memberships
American Bar Association.
Personal
Brooklyn Law School (J.D., cum laude and Brooklyn Law Review); Drexel University (B.S.); Former Law Clerk, Hon. Morton I. Greenberg, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit (1991–1992) and Hon. Mitchell H. Cohen, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey (1990–1991).
Chambers Review
USA
Andrew Frankel is head of insurance and reinsurance at Simpson Thacher. He offers insurance clients significant experience in disputes including mass tort and environmental claims.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Andrew is an excellent lawyer."
"He is brilliantly smart, very highly qualified and has everyone's confidence."
"Andrew is an excellent lawyer."
"He is brilliantly smart, very highly qualified and has everyone's confidence."