Rina Carmel

Biography

Rina Carmel’s practice focuses on insurance coverage and business litigation.  She represents insurers in coverage litigation, defends extracontractual suits, analyzes coverage for complex claims, and counsels insurers on claims handling and regulatory compliance.  Rina has a wide-ranging insurance practice, and clients seek her out when facing challenging and unusual matters.  Her extensive experience includes analysis of claims under commercial general liability (CGL), excess and umbrella, professional liability (including architects and engineers, directors and officers and employment practices liability), first-party property, personal lines, entertainment and media policies, on a national basis.  She has successfully represented clients in business litigation in federal court.

Nationally recognized for her service to the industry, Rina is a frequent invited speaker and is widely published on bad faith and coverage topics.  She is often quoted in news articles on current events in insurance law.

Education:

University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
J.D. 1997
Executive Editor and Associate Editor, Michigan Journal of International Law

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
M.A. 1993

Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
A.B. cum laude and with departmental honors, French major, 1990

Institut d’études françaises d’Avignon, France, Summer 1988

Education

No information available.

Admissions/Licenses

• Bar Admissions: CA