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I am counsel in Robinson+Cole’s Appellate group. Having worked on more than a hundred appeals, I have guided clients to victories spanning the U.S. Courts of Appeals as well as state supreme and appellate courts. My practice centers on complex appellate matters, including high-stakes coverage disputes, regulatory issues with major implications for the industry, and claims with the potential to drastically alter insurers’ exposure across a broad swath of cases. I collaborate closely with clients and trial counsel to craft effective appellate strategies, ensuring that key arguments are well-framed, preserved, and positioned for success, with an eye toward building the law across cases. Read more about Scott.

Welcome to Robinson+Cole’s Covering Appeals blog, a new resource that analyzes the latest developments in insurance coverage appeals and provides an in-depth analysis of industry trends.

Our Insurance Appeals team is known for handling cutting-edge and precedent-setting insurance appeals nationwide, having been involved in key cases arising from the COVID-19 business interruption insurance litigation, Chinese-manufactured

In City of Martinsville, Virginia v. Express Scripts, Inc., 128 F.4th 265 (4th Cir. 2025), two circuits now have forged the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 Coinbase v. Bielski decision into a powerful tool that saves savvy defendants from parallel state-court jurisdiction pending their appeal challenging a remand to state court.

These circuits read Coinbase

Trying to skip straight to court past the mandatory appraisal clause in an insurance policy runs into the brick wall of a dismissal for lack of ripeness. 

In 50 Exchange Terrace LLC v. Mount Vernon Specialty Insurance Company, 129 F.4th 1186 (9th Cir. 2025), the Ninth Circuit recently considered a policyholder’s creative attempt to