Pablo Gonzalez has spent his entire career at Phelps, where he counsels cyber insurers and litigates complex coverage issues. He is the firmwide leader of the Insurance and Reinsurance Practice Group and co-leads Phelps’ Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Working Group.
When Pablo was in London in 2012, as part of Faraday’s (Syndicate 453) Secondee Counsel Program at Lloyd’s, he identified cyber insurance as an emerging market. He returned to New Orleans and set out to pioneer his own cyber practice at Phelps.
For more than a decade, Pablo and his team have worked on thousands of data breach incidents, from individual matters to the largest incidents reported in health care, retail, hospitality, financial institutions, education, outsourced service providers, and government.
Pablo and his team routinely advise London Market and domestic insurers on first- and third-party cyber claims involving incident response, ransomware and other malicious attacks, business interruption losses, security and privacy liability, media liability, technology E&O, regulatory liability, and other cyber and privacy-related exposures.
Insurance is a relationship-based industry. When structuring frameworks, Pablo is mindful of maintaining and building relationships amongst insurers, brokers and insureds.
Experience
- Won a summary judgment motion holding that a major U.S. insurer did not have to defend a policyholder in a data-breach class action involving employees in 14 school districts.
- Coordinates monitoring of cyber claims for 10+ underwriting syndicates on a primary and excess basis.
- Handled numerous business interruption claims arising from Hurricane Katrina.