Band 2
Provided by Rhonda Orin
Insurance Recovery, Climate Change and Disaster Recovery, First Party Property Damage, Business Interruption and Extra Expense Coverage, Health Insurance Recovery for Corporations, Sexual Harassment and Abuse Insurance Recovery
Rhonda D. Orin is the managing partner of the firm's Washington, D.C. office. and co-chair of its Climate Change and Disaster Recovery Group.
Rhonda represents policyholders in coverage cases nationwide. She is distinguished by her extensive experience as lead counsel in multiple multi-million-dollar insurance trials, both bench and jury. She has substantial appellate experience as well, having argued before the highest courts of several states, and appeared in two cases before U.S. Supreme Court. Through jury verdicts, summary judgment decisions and confidential settlements before and during litigation, she has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for policyholders, including nine-figure recoveries. Rhonda also represents hospitals against insurance companies with the zest and expertise of our ordinary insurance practice, even though hospitals are third parties in their insurance relationships (on the health care side) instead of traditional policyholders.
Rhonda is distinguished further by the unusual breadth of her substantive knowledge. In addition to expertise with first-party property damage and business interruption claims, third-party tort and environmental liability claims, directors & officers and errors & omissions claims, she also is knowledgeable about cyber liability, fidelity bonds, disability insurance policies and the myriad of health insurance and ERISA issues that arise in the context of modern healthcare.
Due to such achievements, Rhonda has been named a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, an honor reserved for less than 1% of attorneys. She has been ranked in Chambers USA, honored by The Legal 500, named a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, awarded “Star of the Bar” by the Women’s Bar Association of D.C. and selected by her peers for continuous inclusion in Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers. She also is a prolific and influential author on insurance issues and is the author of a book entitled, "Making Them Pay: How to Get the Most from Health Insurance and Managed Care" which was honored by The Wall Street Journal in 2000. Rhonda is also the author of "Self-Administering, Insuring and Funding Benefit Plans".
Professional Memberships
The District of Columbia Bar, American Bar Association
Association Memberships
Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America; Fellow, American Bar Federation; Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Book: MAKING THEM PAY: HOW TO GET THE MOST FROM HEALTH INSURANCE AND MANAGED CARE
St. Martin's Press, 2001
Articles:
Perspectives: North Carolina Supreme Court gets it right on COVID business interruption coverage
Business Insurance / February 25, 2025
Cyberattacks are bankrupting health care providers. Insurance may help.
Medical Economics / May 13, 2024
COVID-19 Business Interruption Decisions for Policyholders: State Appellate Courts (Begin to) Recognize Deviations from a Pre-Pandemic Norm - LexisNexis Practical Guidance, January 2023
COVERAGE FOR BUSINESS LOSSES FROM COVID-19 - A LOUISIANA APPELLATE COURT OPENS THE DOOR
Anderson Kill Policyholder Advisor | June 22, 2022
MEETING SUIT LIMITATION DEADLINES FOR COVID-RELATED BUSINESS INTERRUPTION CLAIMS
Anderson Kill Policyholder Alert | January 06, 2022
WHAT TO KNOW AS MASS. JUSTICES TACKLE COVID COVERAGE ROW
Law360 | January 05, 2022
COVID, ‘DIRECT PHYSICAL LOSS’ AND YOUR PROPERTY POLICY: CAN THE COURTS EVEN FIGURE THIS OUT?
Risk & Insurance | April 27, 2021
WHEN LIGHTS GO OUT AS THEY DID IN TEXAS, INSURANCE COVERAGE COULD TURN ON
Insurance Journal | March 26, 2021
PERSPECTIVES: ODE TO COVID-19 COVERAGE LITIGATION: ‘WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN …’
Business Insurance | March 04, 2021
COVID-19 INSURANCE CLAIMS UPDATE BEWARE CONTRACTUAL LIMITATIONS PERIODS
Policyholder Advisor & Alert | February 22, 2021
NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN COVID-19 INSURANCE COVERAGE LITIGATION
Risk Management Magazine (RMM) | December 01, 2020
THE HIDDEN RISKS OF HAVING THE SAME COMPANY SERVE AS TPA AND STOP-LOSS INSURER AND HOW YOU CAN MINIMIZE THEM
Bloomberg Law | November 02, 2020
IN TIMES OF CRISIS, INSURERS ARE SUPPOSED TO ‘LOSE’ MONEY
New York Daily News | June 13, 2020
INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR CORONAVIRUS CLAIMS: ‘LOSS OF USE’ DOES NOT REQUIRE PHYSICAL INJURY IN LIABILITY POLICIES
Westlaw | April 10, 2020
VIEWPOINT: INSURANCE POLICYHOLDERS HAVE PROPERTY LOSS CLAIMS IN CORONAVIRUS ERA
Washington Business Journal | April 03, 2020
COVID-19 AND INSURANCE FOR CONSTRUCTION DELAYS
Washington D.C. - Alert | March 27, 2020
MANY LIABILITY INSURANCE POLICIES MAY PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR LOSSES FROM CORONAVIRUS
Advisen FPN | March 26, 2020
For publications prior to 2020, please see the Publications tab on Rhonda's Anderson Kill bio: https://www.andersonkill.com/People/Rhonda-D-Orin
Bar Admissions
District of Columbia
New York
New Jersey
Court Admissions
United States District Court for the District of Columbia
United States District Court for the District of Maryland
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Supreme Court of the United States
New York University School of Law
J.D.
University of Pennsylvania
B.A., Summa Cum Laude
Provided by Chambers
Provided by Chambers
Rhonda is good at understanding the commercial aspect. She is able to boil aspects down to get to the core issues.
Rhonda is a superb coverage attorney and is always responsive to calls. I have never worked with anyone who had better attention to detail and ability to creatively solve complex problems.
She has the right judgement. She knows how to focus on the language of policies and how to present the case in line with the most favourable strategy.
Rhonda provides excellent negotiation and advocacy. She is knowledgeable, professional, responsive and highly capable.
She is as thorough in reading and applying coverage as anyone I have worked with. I often call her to discuss coverage and obtain her opinion on ways to interpret and apply policy provisions.
Rhonda is good at understanding the commercial aspect. She is able to boil aspects down to get to the core issues.
Rhonda is a superb coverage attorney and is always responsive to calls. I have never worked with anyone who had better attention to detail and ability to creatively solve complex problems.
She has the right judgement. She knows how to focus on the language of policies and how to present the case in line with the most favourable strategy.
Rhonda provides excellent negotiation and advocacy. She is knowledgeable, professional, responsive and highly capable.
She is as thorough in reading and applying coverage as anyone I have worked with. I often call her to discuss coverage and obtain her opinion on ways to interpret and apply policy provisions.