John Diaconis
Bleakley Platt & Schmidt, LLP
One North Lexington Ave
White Plains, NY 10601
jdiaconis@bpslaw.com
www.bpslaw.com
John S. Diaconis has over twenty-five years experience counseling the insurance and reinsurance industry in a wide variety of matters involving various lines of business, including errors and omissions coverage, directors and officers, fidelity and surety claims, employment practices liability matters, property and commercial general liability claims and personal injury claims.
He is Co-author of the treatise entitled Reinsurance Law (PLI Press 2005) and served as Chairman of PLI's Annual Program on Reinsurance Law and Practice from 1994 to 2000. He has also published a number of articles on reinsurance matters in The Review: Worldwide Reinsurance. Mr. Diaconis was a Partner at Peterson & Ross (1996--1999) and Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker (1981-1995), respectively. He later served as Vice-President of Hartford Financial Services Group (2001--2003) where he had responsibility for insurance company errors and omissions, fidelity and surety matters and residual value claims emanating from Hartford's Financial Products Division. He also had responsibility for the assumed and ceded reinsurance for this division.
Mr. Diaconis holds a J.D. from Drake University Law School where he was a member of the Drake Law Review. Upon graduation from Law School, he served from 1980 to 1981 as Law Clerk to Hon. Joel J. Tyler, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He also holds a LL.M from New York University Law School. He is a member of the New York Bar Association, the Westchester County Bar Association, the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Appointed initially, Mr. Diaconis was later elected to serve a full, four-year term as Councilman for the Town of New Castle, becoming involved in the enactment of municipal legislation and policy-making decisions. He currently serves as Town Prosecutor for the Town of New Castle and is Co-Chair of the Municipal Law section of the Westchester County Bar Association.
Mr. Diaconis has extensive experience as an arbitrator and mediator. His mediation experience includes both as a mediator and as Counsel. He has mediated over 15 disputes which have involved subjects such as Brokers E&O, EPLI, Fidelity Liability, Professional Liability, and Contractors and Sub-Contractors. He has formal mediation training from the Harvard Law School and the Westchester Mediation Center. He has been appointed by the New York Supreme Court, Commercial Division to its Panel of Mediators and Neutrals for New York City and Westchester County.
Mr. Diaconis is an ARIAS-U.S. certified mediator and arbitrator.
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