Charles Scibetta

For more than 30 years, Charlie has represented sophisticated businesses in high-stakes commercial litigation and arbitration. His clients have included insurers, reinsurers, banks, hedge funds, REITs, pharmaceutical companies, and media companies in complex contract and business tort disputes.

Charlie has particular expertise in insurance and reinsurance disputes, handling high-severity claims across business lines. His experience includes nine-figure arbitrations involving business interruption and products liability coverage, as well as complex, multi-party litigation and arbitration involving toxic tort, environmental, and other exposures. He has extensive experience with the Bermuda Form and similar policies governed by New York law and arbitrated outside the United States.

Charlie also has substantial experience representing clients in disputes arising from financial crises, corporate failures, and major catastrophes, including September 11, Enron, Lehman Brothers, Madoff, and the subprime mortgage crisis. These matters have involved complex agency relationships, securities disputes, valuations, collateral, fraud, rescission, and other commercial issues.

• Insurance/Arbitration. Following a 2-week arbitration, won an award in a $100 million-plus property damage and business interruption dispute.
• Insurance/Arbitration. Following a 1-day hearing, won a $20 million dispute over coverage for liability for malicious prosecution claims under a municipal liability policy.
• Insurance/Arbitration. Following a 3-week plenary hearing, successfully settled a 9-figure claim for products liability coverage prior to decision.
• Insurance/Litigation. Following multiple weeks of mediation, successfully settled 9-figure claim for products liability coverage arising out of allegations of failure of an industrial product.
• Insurance/Arbitration and Litigation. Currently handling multiple claim disputes in court and arbitration. Amounts in dispute range up to several hundred million USD.
• General Commercial/Litigation. Defended multi-national media company in claims alleging breach of contract, theft of trade secrets.
• Financial Services/Litigation. Defended Madoff feeder fund and one of its individual directors in state and federal contract, securities, and business tort litigation.
• Financial Services/Litigation. Helped hedge fund recover millions of dollars held up in Lehman estate.
• Financial Services/Litigation. Represented foreign regulator in connection with multi-million fraud claims in the US.
• General Commercial/Arbitration. Won $100 million dispute on behalf of pharmaceutical company in dispute over co-development agreement.

• Chaffetz Lindsey’s NY Commercial Litigation Report.
• Chaffetz Lindsey’s Insurance/Reinsurance Report.
• The Last Word: State High Court Decisions on Number of Occurrences (February 2018).

• International Association of Defense Counsel
• DRI – The Voice of the Defense Bar
• AIDA Reinsurance and Insurance Arbitration Society
• American Bar Association
• New York State Bar Association
• International Bar Association