Harold Horwich

Hal Horwich has been involved in many major insurance insolvency and restructuring matters. He represented policyholders in Ambac and FGIC; the Maryland Insurance Department in ACA Financial Guaranty; guaranty association member companies in Penn Treaty/American Network, the second largest insurance insolvency in the history of the United States; and Physicians Reciprocal Insurers, the second largest medical malpractice insurer in New York.

Horwich was appointed by the insurance commissioner of the state of Connecticut as the Chairman of the Task Force on Insurance Company Runoff and Reorganization. He is also Chairman of the International Association of Insurance Receivers (IAIR) Publications Committee and Co-Chair of IAIR’s Subcommittee on insolvent Managed Care Organizations. He is a member of the NAIC committee on amendments to the Model Insurer Rehabilitation and Liquidation Act.

Before joining Morgan Lewis, Horwich was a Partner at another international law firm, where he was head of the firm’s insurance practice and a member of its financial restructuring group.