Joanna M. Roberto

Joanna M. Roberto

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Joanna Roberto is a partner in the firm’s Long Island office who concentrates her practice in complex insurance coverage and commercial litigation. She serves as coverage counsel for multi-national insurance carriers in numerous matters pending throughout the country. Joanna has litigated all phases of declaratory judgment actions and arbitrations. She has counseled large insurers on underwriting procedures and policy rewriting and claims practices.

She also focuses her practice on professional liability coverage; life, health and disability; construction liability coverage; Coverage B litigation; and products liability.

Joanna is multi-lingual and has attained a degree in linguistics in Florence, Italy. She has a familiarity with and appreciation for international claims handling practices as a result of her experience handling claims arising in Mexico, Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain and France.

She is currently the editor of the TICL Insurance Coverage eNews, published by the New York State Bar Association’s Torts, Insurance and Compensation Law Section, and an editor of Goldberg Segalla’s Environmental Coverage Quarterly newsletter.

Professional Affiliations
  • Defense Research Institute: Insurance Law Committee Steering Committee Member and Directors and Officers Subcommittee Chair
  • American Bar Association: Insurance Coverage Section and Litigation Section
  • New York State Bar Association: Torts, Insurance and Compensation Law Section (Chair, Insurance Coverage Committee; Executive Committee Member; Editor, TICL Insurance Coverage eNews); Chair, 2011 Insurance Coverage Update
  • New York County Lawyers Association: Tort Law Section
  • National Association of Insurance Women (International)
  • Nassau County Bar Association
Admitted to Practice
  • New York
  • U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut
  • U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Tenth Circuits
  • Connecticut, 1997 
  • Pennsylvania
Languages
  • Italian
  • French
Education
  • Hofstra University, B.A.,1994
  • Diploma di Conoscenza, Centro Linquisto, Florence, Italy, 1997
  • Pace University School of Law, J.D., 1997
Publications/Presentations
  • Statewide Chairperson, Insurance Coverage Update, New York State Bar Association, New York, New York, May 2011
  • Co-Author, “Investing in Death Creates Judicial and Regulatory Issues,” DRI, For the Defense, July 2011
  • Author, “Gulf Coast Oil Spill Coverage Impact on the Insurance Industry,” NYSBA Torts, Insurance & Compensation Law Section Journal, Summer 2011
  • Author, “Direct or Derivative? Direct Injury Test Applied to LLC Member from Asserting Claims,” DRI Covered Events, March 21, 2011
  • Co-Author, “D&O Insurer Ordered to Pay Defense Costs: The Stanford’s Victory & The Insurer’s Vanquish” DRI, The Voice, February 2010
  • Co-Author, “A Right or a Privilege: Recouping Uncovered Settlement Funds,” DRI, The Voice, October 2008
  • Presenter, “Additional Insured Issues,” NYSBA Law School for the Claims Professionals, Long Island, New York, September 2008
  • Co-Author, “D&O Fraud and Dishonesty Exclusion: How Broad Should It Be?,” DRI, For the Defense, May 2008
  • Co-Author, “Coverage Implications of the Subprime-Mortgage Meltdown,” Mealey’s Emerging Insurance Disputes, December 2007
  • Presenter, “What a Difference a Day Makes — The Perils of Claims-Made Coverages,” Insurance Coverage and Practice Symposium, Defense Research Institute, December 2007  
  • Presenter, “Additional Insured Issues and Policy Exclusions,” NYSBA Law School for Claims Professionals, June 2007
  • Presenter, “Mortgagee Claims,” New York State Bar Association Seminar on Insurance Coverage Update, New York, New York, May 2007
  • Presenter, “Trucking Litigation and Claims,” New York State Bar Association Seminar on Insurance Coverage Issues in Trucking Litigation in New York, November 2006
  • Author, “Novel Failure to Warn Theories: Viable Exception to GARA?,” Aviation Litigation Quarterly, Fall/Winter 2000
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