As head of the Insurance Recovery Group at Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney—the women-owned litigation boutique she co-founded nearly 30 years ago—Dorothea W. Regal has obtained hundreds of millions of dollars for corporate policyholders from insurers.

She has extensive litigation and arbitration experience in the U.S. and internationally. Dorothea has negotiated scores of complex, highly valuable settlement agreements resolving coverage disputes for policyholders. In the courtroom, Dorothea has contributed to cutting-edge legal developments in insurance law, prevailing for commercial and industrial policyholders in connection with insurance coverage for environmental, asbestos, products and directors & officers liability claims, property insurance, and business interruption coverage. As just one example, she and her team won a groundbreaking ruling for Syngenta in a $170 million insurance coverage dispute over product liability claims involving the company’s herbicide, and secured a precedential decision from the Delaware Supreme Court upholding the trial court’s two summary judgment rulings in favor of Syngenta.

Dorothea has been named the Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyer of the Year by Euromoney (2021); a Distinguished Leader by the New York Law Journal (2021); a Notable Diverse Leader in Law and a Notable Woman Business Owner by Crain’s New York Business (2022 and 2021, respectively); and an Elite Boutique Trailblazer by The National Law Journal (2018). She has also been recognized as a top litigator by Benchmark Litigation since 2018 and as a New York Metro Super Lawyer for Insurance Coverage since 2014.

Dorothea received her J.D., magna cum laude, from Brooklyn Law School and her A.B. from Vassar College.