George A. Cavell
Certified Arbitrator
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Current Employment
| Company: |
Munich Re America |
| Position(s) and Responsibilities: |
Executive management responsibility for all administrative and technical aspects of Environmental, Mass Tort, Property and Bond/Surety Claim Departments including oversight of lawyers and claim professionals who manage reinsurance and insurance claims, litigation and arbitration, and management of Claim Division support for MRAm’s Run-Off Business Unit. |
| Address: |
555 College Road East
Princeton, NJ 08543
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| Phone: |
609-243-4530 |
| Cell: |
609-933-7261 |
| Fax: |
609-243-4558 |
| Email: |
gcavell@munichreamerica.com |
Previous Employment
| Company: |
Royal Insurance Company |
| Position(s) and Responsibilities: |
Various technical claim handling and management positions in the Home Office Claim Division. Claims involved all casualty lines of business, also managed all coverage related litigation. |
Credentials
| Attorney: |
Yes |
| Education: |
Fordham University,
Pace University School of Law, Insurance Executive Development Program, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and American Institute for Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters |
| Degrees: |
BA and JD |
| Designations: |
Licensed to Practice Law, New York |
| Languages: |
English |
Work Experience
Insurance Company:
9 years
Claim Department:
9 years.
Reinsurance Company:
25 years
Claim Department:
25 years.
Breakdown of Experience
| Asbestos |
25% |
| Environmental/Pollution |
20% |
| Fidelity & Surety |
15% |
| Product Liability |
5% |
| Bad Faith/ECO |
5% |
| Toxic Tort |
5% |
| Financial Guarantee |
3% |
| Excess/Surplus Lines |
3% |
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| Professional Liability/Errors & Omissions |
2% |
| Healthcare |
2% |
| Commutations |
2% |
| Contract Wording |
2% |
| Directors & Officers |
1% |
| Employment Practices Liability |
1% |
| Construction Defects |
1% |
| Captives/Risk Retention Groups |
1% |
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| Catastrophes (Property) |
1% |
| Commercial Liability |
1% |
| Commercial Property |
1% |
| Personal Lines |
1% |
| Third Party Administrator |
1% |
| Finite |
1% |
| Alternative/Self-Insurance/Risk Management |
1% |
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By Market
U.S. Market:
85%
U.K. Market:
13%
Bermuda/Off-shore Market:
1%
European Market:
1%
Insurance vs. Reinsurance: 35/65%
Treaty vs. Facultative Reinsurance: 65/35%
Current Insurance or Reinsurance Company Officer
ARIAS Experience
Ethics Training, as Trainee: 1; March 2009
Arbitration Experience
Number of Arbitrations
As Employee Manager: 10
Employee Manager Experience
Number of Arbitrations
| 2 |
Employee Manager of arbitration. |
| 2 |
Employee Manager of arbitration through pre-hearing briefs. |
| 3 |
Employee Manager of arbitration through evidentiary hearing of at least one full day and less than three full days regarding the substantive merits of the parties' dispute. |
| 3 |
Employee Manager of arbitration through evidentiary hearing of at least three full day regarding the substantive merits of the parties' dispute. |
Biography
George Cavell is a Senior Vice President of Munich Re America’s Claim Division, and manages their Environmental/Mass Tort, Property, and Bond/Surety Claim Departments. He is currently responsible for the oversight of a professional claim staff who manage pollution, asbestos, toxic product and other latent claims and coverage litigation, and also first party property and bond/surety losses and litigation.
Prior to joining Munich Re America, Mr. Cavell was with Royal Insurance Company in New York where he held various technical and then managerial positions in Royal’s Home Office Claim Division.
He is a graduate of the Insurance Executive Development Program of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the American Institute for Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters, has a B.A. from Fordham University, a J.D. from Pace University School of Law, both in New York, and is a member of the New York State Bar.
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