Practice Areas
Insurance and reinsurance
Contractual and non-contractual liability
Consumer protection law, both individual and collective.
Career
Francisca Román is a distinguished insurance law specialist with a career spanning leading Chilean law firms and major corporate legal departments. Until January 2024, she was a partner at Estudio Carvallo, where she led the legal recoveries and insurance litigation defense practice. Her previous experience includes roles at Urrutia & Cía., Telefónica Móviles Chile, Cariola Diez Pérez-Cotapos, and Álvarez Hinzpeter Jana & Valle.
In academia, she serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Private Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile and teaches in the Insurance Law Diploma programs offered by the Insurance School of the Association of Insurers of Chile A.G., in partnership with the University of Los Andes, as well as LLM in damages at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.
She holds leadership positions in the insurance legal community as director of AIDA Chile, and is an active member of the Chilean Bar Association, and the “Directory of Women Experts” in insurance law. Recognized for her expertise in dispute resolution, Francisca is listed as an arbitrator with the Arbitration and Mediation Center of Santiago’s Chamber of Commerce (CAM) and with ARIAS LATAM.
Francisca is a lawyer from the University of Chile, and she has a Diploma in Civil Liability in Chilean Civil Law from the same university, and a Diploma in New Scenarios of Civil Liability from the University of Castilla-La Mancha.
Awards:
• Chambers and Partners, Insurance, Band 3.
• LACCA Aproved – Litigation.
• Lexology Index Recommended – Insurance.
• THE LATIN AMERICAN LAWYER Womans Award 2025 -Lawyer of the Year, Insurance
Professional Memberships
• Director of the Insurance Lawyers Association AIDA – Chile.
• Member of the Chilean Bar Association A.G.
• Member of the list of arbitrators of Arbitration and Mediation Center of Santiago’s Chamber of Commerce (CAM).
• Member of the list of arbitrators of ARIAS LATAM.
• Member of “Directory of Women Experts of the Chilean Bar Association: Insurance”.
• Member of RC Working Party at AIDA Chile.
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Experience
• Lecturer at Civil Liability and Consumer Law Diplomas at Universidad de Chile.
• Organizer of the Seminar "Risks and Artificial Intelligence", organized by PSLG and the Fernando Fueyo Foundation, Diego Portales University.
• Moderator of the cyber insurance conference at the XVIII Ibero-Latin American Congress of Insurance Law (CILA), organized in Santiago, Chile.
• Guest speaker at the international seminar “Resolution of Insurance Disputes: Exploring alternatives”, organized by the Association of Insurers of Chile, the Insurance School of Chile and PSLG.