Peter D. Luneau

In addition to his transactional practice, Mr. Luneau has counseled on a wide range of insurance coverage matters for clients, including, for example, in connection with the successful resolution of significant claims under D&O and RWI policies, as well as multiparty litigation in state and federal courts concerning bodily injury, environmental, property and business interruption losses, and numerous U.S. and international insurance and reinsurance arbitrations and alternative dispute resolutions.

Mr. Luneau was a member of the team that represented the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey with respect to all of its property insurance claims arising out of the September 11 terrorist attacks, as well as the owner of an adjacent landmark building in connection with its September 11 losses. He also represented the owner of another New York City landmark in connection with its property insurance claims arising out of Hurricane Sandy, as well as a major sports league in insurance coverage litigation arising out of underlying concussion litigation.

His arbitration experience includes representing one of the world’s largest banks in an international arbitration involving political risk insurance and reinsurance; an international energy provider in connection with nuclear fuel rod losses; a transportation insurer in a reinsurance dispute concerning claims handling; and a leading life insurance company in a dispute against its reinsurer.

Mr. Luneau has been heavily involved in all aspects of international Bermuda Form insurance arbitrations on behalf of clients involving a wide array of issues. Such matters have involved the expected or intended defense and maintenance deductible, propriety and scope of the notice of (integrated) occurrence, streamlining discovery, allocation and apportionment of losses between covered and uncovered components. In addition, he has handled matters involving the reasonableness of the underlying defense efforts and settlements, the known loss or occurrence defense, retroactive coverage and efforts to rescind or void a policy in its entirety based on alleged misrepresentations in the insurance application.

Mr. Luneau also provides insurance-related advice to pro bono clients, lectures on various insurance matters and serves as a contributing editor for the New York State Bar Association’s Insurance Law Practice book.