Cynthia BorrelliCynthia Borrelli
Managing Principal, Bressler Amery & Ross 

As head of the firm’s Insurance Law practice group, Cynthia Borrelli provides quality legal advice relating to property-casualty and life, annuity and health, managed care, disability insurance and reinsurance matters, with particular emphasis on solvency regulation. Cynthia has advised clients and handled contested issues in insurance related matters for most of her career, including insurance and reinsurance transactions, mergers, acquisitions and other holding company transactions, contractual, employment and other business disputes, enforcement proceedings, filings, rate hearings and appeals of administrative actions. 

Cynthia's practice focuses on regulation and compliance for insurers, brokers and trade associations in the property/casualty and life and health areas. She also has appeared in court on behalf of clients in many significant and precedential cases. Cynthia is also a member of Bressler's Senior and Vulnerable Investor Group. The lawyers in this group have a shared interest in providing counsel to corporate clients who confront issues affecting seniors. 

Cynthia is widely published in her field of practice and has authored articles and book chapters about insurance and healthcare law, most recently as an editor of the Lexis Practice Advisor Section on insurance. She is frequently invited to speak publicly, participate in panels and lectures at Rutgers Law School. She has participated in the Defense Research Institute's symposium on Diversity for Success. Cynthia is an active participant in the New Jersey Association of Health Plans as well as the Insurance Council of New Jersey. She is also a past chair of the Firm’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee and previously served on the Firm’s Executive Committee.  Cynthia is a member of the Board of Directors of the Federation of Regulatory Counsel, a past Chairman of that Board of Directors, has chaired the Legal Committee of the National Conference of Insurance Guaranty Funds, and has served on the Legal Committee for the National Association of Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Associations. She also sits on the Board of Ambassadors of the National Health Law Program (NHeLP). Cynthia is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Insurance Advertising Compliance Association, a non for-profit organization whose fundamental purpose is to promote the education of insurance marketing, legal and compliance professionals.