Insurance vs. Reinsurance: 50/50%
Treaty vs. Facultative Reinsurance: 50/50%
Workshops, as Faculty: 3; September 2008, March 2009, September 2011
Ethics Training, as Trainee: 1; May 2009
ARIAS Conference Faculty: 6; Spring 2004, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2017
Other Approved Training: February 2011 Educational Seminar - FACULTY; <br>
March 2013 Educational Seminar - FACULTY
March 2014 Educational Seminar - FACULTY
Number of Arbitrations
As an Arbitrator: 131
As an Umpire: 80
As Outside Counsel: 25
As Employee Manager: 25
As Corporate Representative: 25
Sylvia Kaminsky has been in the insurance/reinsurance industry for 30 years. For the first 15 years of her career she was in private legal practice focusing on coverage, defense, insurance and reinsurance arbitration and litigation matters. She then joined Constitution Reinsurance Corporation as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary and served on the Board of Directors. She also served in the same capacity for Sirius Reinsurance Corporation which later became Sirius America Insurance Company. When Constitution Reinsurance Corporation was acquired by the Gerling Group, she was Deputy General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Claims for the U.S. Branch operations. Since 2002 she has served as a consultant and arbitrator to the industry having served in well over 100 arbitrations involving insurance, reinsurance and security matters. In addition to being a certified umpire/arbitrator of ARIAS-U.S., she is on the Panel of Commercial Arbitrators and on the Complex Coverage Neutral Evaluation Panel of the American Arbitration Association; a member of the arbitration panel for FINRA; and on the panel of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention.