About Catamount Services LLC

Joseph P. Monteleone, through Catamount Services LLC, offers arbitration, expert witness, consulting and other services to policyholders, insurance companies, brokers and others.

ARBITRATOR AND MEDIATOR

As an ARIAS-US Certified arbitrator, he specializes in reinsurance and insurer/policyholder disputes involving insurance coverage issues.  Mr. Monteleone is a certified arbitrator through ARIAS-US, a CPR-trained mediator and is admitted to the practice of law in New York and New Jersey. 

EXPERT WITNESS 

Expert witness services include testimony on insurance industry custom and practice, as well as claims handling standards. He has over forty (40) years of industry experience, including twenty-five (25) as a claims professional and executive.  He can offer consulting services such as policy and endorsement drafting and reinsurance audits.  

His specialty areas of expertise are management liability insurance products, such as D&O, and other complex professional liability and errors and omissions coverages, including but not limited to representations and warranties and other transactional risk insurance, lawyers professional liability, and employment practices liability.  He has been a frequent speaker and writer during his extensive professional career, including publications and presentations in the United States, Europe and Asia.

CONSULTING AND OTHER SERVICES

These include the following:

• Policy wording review and drafting

• Reinsurance and other claims auditing in specialty lines such as D&O and transactional risk insurance

• Claims best practices