Regularly recognized as a leading business lawyer by Chambers USA and The Legal 500 US, Daniel E. Chefitz represents businesses in high stakes insurance recovery matters, and designs and implements captive insurance solutions, including legacy liability ring-fence strategies. Daniel has advised numerous companies on the benefits of creating legacy liability structures utilizing various tax-efficient funding sources. These structures minimize exposure from long-tail liabilities while providing businesses with significant transactional flexibility.
As a leader of Morgan Lewis’s captive insurance practice, Daniel advises clients on the creation and use of captives as a strategic risk management tool to supplement commercially available insurance. Daniel guides companies through the life cycle of captives, including creation, expansion, and sale or runoff. Daniel’s insurance recovery practice has achieved significant policyholder recoveries for product liability, asbestos, environmental, directors and officers, cyber liability, and first party losses.
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Ranked, Insurance: Policyholder, District of Columbia, Chambers USA (2010–2024)
Recommended, Insurance: advice to policyholders, The Legal 500 US (2024)
Recommended, Dispute resolution: Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort, The Legal 500 US (2020–2023)
Recommended, Industry focus: Insurance: advice to policyholders, The Legal 500 US (2016, 2018–2023)
Member, Litigation Department of the Year, Specialty Insurance, National Law Journal (2021)
Member, Practice Group of the Year, Insurance, Law360 (2020)