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.
Programs & Lectures
Lecturer, International Reinsurance Congress; Inter-Pacific Bar Association, Turnaround Management Association, International Association of Insurance Receivers and ABA TIPS Insurance Coverage Programs
Publications
•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)
News
Archdiocese and Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors Agree to Nonmonetary Provisions
November 7, 2024
PSZJ Attorneys Named in 2025 Edition of Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch
August 15, 2024
PSZJ Attorneys Named in 2024 Edition of Best Lawyers in America
August 17, 2023
PSZJ Attorneys Named in 2023 Edition of Best Lawyers in America
August 18, 2022
PSZJ Attorneys Named in 2022 Edition of Best Lawyers in America
August 19, 2021
PSZJ Attorneys Named in 2021 Edition of Best Lawyers in America
August 20, 2020
PSZJ Attorneys Named in Best Lawyers in America
August 15, 2018
Diocese of Great Falls-Billings Confirms Chapter 11 Plan
August 16, 2018
Judge Confirms Diocese of Stockton Chapter 11 Plan
January 12, 2017
Events
Accountability & Protection: Child Sexual Abuse Claims in Chapter 11
Child USA Los Angeles, CA, October 27, 2023
The SIR Dilemma: When Does (And When Should) an Excess Carrier Get Involved?
27th Annual American Bar Association Insurance Coverage Litigation Midyear Conference Tucson, February 20, 2020
Everything You Don't Want to Learn About Directors and Officers' Insurance Policies . . . After It's Too Late!
Turnaround Management Association Webinar, September 24, 2015
The Right Choice - Private Runoff, Rehabilitation or Liquidation
IAIR Insolvency Workshop 2013 Savannah GA, January 30, 2013
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