Areas of Expertise: Bad Faith; Captive Insurance; Directors & Officers Insurance; Excess & Surplus Lines; Fidelity Insurance; Insurance Claims Handling; Insurance Defense; Insurance Practices & Standards; Professional Liability, Errors & Omissions; Property Insurance; Property & Casualty Insurance; Reinsurance; Rescission & Misrepresentation; Risk Management; Surety Insurance.
Mitchell L. Lathrop serves as a consultant and expert witness in matters involving insurance, reinsurance, and lawyers' professional responsibility. He has qualified as an expert in both state and federal courts. He is a former Presiding Referee of the California State Bar Court. In addition to his expert qualifications, he is the author of Insurance Coverage for Environmental Claims, published by Lexis-Nexis and updated annually. The work is currently in its twenty-fifth edition.
He is also a Chartered Arbitrator and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, as well as a National Panelist of the American Arbitration Association (AAA), a Panelist of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), and a Distinguished Neutral of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (“CPR”). He serves on the panels of arbitrators for arbitral organizations in Austria, Dubai, India, Japan and Switzerland. He is a Member of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA). Mr. Lathrop is a 1966 graduate of the University of Southern California Law School and a 1959 graduate of the United States Naval Academy. He holds a Diploma in International Arbitration Law from the College of Law of England and Wales.