Dorothea Regal

United States

Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney, LLP · As head of the Insurance Recovery Group at Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney—the women-owned litigation boutique she co-founded 30 years ago—Dorothea W. Regal has obtained hundreds of millions of dollars for corporate policyholders from insurers. She has extensive litigation and arbitration experience in the U.S. and internationally, securing policyholder recoveries in complex, high-stakes coverage disputes involving environmental, asbestos, and products liability claims, including long-tail claims arising from decades-old injuries or exposures under old occurrence-based liability policies. She also handles D&O, E&O, and employment practices liability claims as well as property insurance and business interruption coverage. Among her notable matters, Dorothea and her team won a groundbreaking trial court ruling for Syngenta in New Jersey state court in a $170 million insurance coverage dispute over nationwide class-action product liability claims alleging property damage from decades of commercial use of the company’s herbicide, and in another case won a trial for Syngenta in the Delaware Superior Court establishing the primary insurer’s coverage obligation over thousands of personal injury claims allegedly arising from exposure to another product and secured a precedential decision from the Delaware Supreme Court upholding the trial court’s two summary judgment rulings in favor of Syngenta on the issue of whether a threat of a claim constituted a claim under Delaware law. Dorothea has been named the Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyer of the Year by Euromoney (2021); a Distinguished Leader by the New York Law Journal (2021); a Notable Diverse Leader in Law and a Notable Woman Business Owner by Crain’s New York Business (2022 and 2021, respectively); and an Elite Boutique Trailblazer by The National Law Journal (2018). She has also been recognized by Chambers for Insurance: Dispute Resolution for Policyholders since 2023 and as a top litigator by Benchmark Litigation since 2018.

United States