Christopher Carroll

Practice Areas

Bermuda form

Cyber risks

Directors and officers liability

Energy

Environmental

Product liability and product safety

Professional liability

Property damage

Reinsurance

Insurance coverage

General liability

Commercial disputes

Arbitration

Construction

Construction and engineering

Healthcare

Information technology

Insurance and reinsurance

Rail

Retail

Sport

Work Highlights

Representing insurers in connection with claims against USA Gymnastics and the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee arising from allegations of sexual abuse by former doctor, Larry Nassar.

Representing insurers in connection with resolution of more than 4,000 individual claimants against MGM alleging wrongful d

Representing insurers in connection with insurance claims and litigation arising from class action and mass tort lawsuits asserted by former athletes alleging long-term brain injury against various sports leagues, including the National Football League, the National Hockey League, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

Representing insurers of drug distributors and manufacturers in opioid litigation in federal and state courts throughout the country, in connection with hundreds of lawsuits brought by governmental entities, individuals and other institutions seeking damages in the tens of billions of dollars.

Representing certain Bermuda and London based excess insurers of joint venture participant sued for catastrophic property, environmental, and personal injury damages associated with the failure of the Fundão Tailings Dam in Brazil.

Representing insurer in large coverage dispute arising out of the release of confidential medical records of approximately 32,500 patients that were stored electronically on hospital servers.

Representing excess insurer in connection with multiple claims under a professional/cyber liability policy involving disputes over the insured’s design and implementation of large IT projects.

Representing insurer in Bermuda arbitration involving complex reinsurance dispute arising from pre-suit settlement of numerous medical malpractice claims due to performance of unapproved experimental spinal procedure on hundreds of patients.

Representing insurer in three-week Bermuda arbitration proceeding arising from underlying fraud in the construction of hundreds of homes on the West Coast of the United States.

Representing insurer in connection with insurance policies issued to an international retailer regarding a data breach exposing over 45 million customer names and financial data, including a determination as to the applicability of a “cyber” exclusion and the duties, if any, of the insurance company to fund the expenses associated with customer class actions and government investigations. This analysis involved consideration of policies issued in multiple countries and the international laws pertaining to those policies.

Representing excess carrier in insurance coverage arbitration arising from bodily injury, wrongful death, and property damage claims resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion.

Career

Chris is a partner based in our New York and Basking Ridge offices. He is also the Chairman of Kennedys’ Governance Group, with the group ensuring robust decision-making across the firm’s leadership.

With extensive experience handling and resolving insurance coverage disputes, through both litigation and alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, he advises clients across environmental, toxic tort, asbestos, construction, advertising liability, products, cyber, technology, property, automobile, and employment issues.

Chris has represented clients in insurance coverage disputes in virtually every state in the United States, at both the state and federal level, as well as in Bermuda, Canada, Puerto Rico, and throughout Europe. He is experienced in the resolution of reinsurance disputes and the drafting of reinsurance contracts, whilst also providing counsel to corporate clients on general business matters, contract negotiation, environmental litigation and compliance, and all types of commercial disputes.

Beyond his legal practice, Chris is a frequent lecturer on a myriad of insurance and litigation topics, including mediation and negotiation, bad faith, construction defect, toxic tort, hazardous waste and advertising liability. He is on the Advisory Board for The Center for the Study of Insurance Regulation at St. John’s University in New York, as well as the Editorial Advisory Board of Insurance Law & Litigation Week.

His accolades are a testament to his standing and reputation in the profession. Chris is a Senior Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a Fellow of the American College of Coverage Counsel (ACCC), and a Fellow of the American Bar Association, an honor reserved for only one percent of the lawyers admitted to practice in the US.

His leadership extends to the community, where Chris is a Chairman of the Board of Trustees of St. Joseph's College in New York, as well as a member of the Trial Law Institute and Diversity Law Institute. He is also a member of the University Council of the United States International University-Africa in Nairobi, Kenya.

Chris contributed to Kennedys' ‘Global forecast 2025: Negotiating the interconnection of evolving risk’ report, published in February 2025.

Awards