Jonathan D. Henry

Jonathan D. Henry is Counsel at Dentons and a member of the firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice and Insurance sector, based in Short Hills, New Jersey, focusing on Insurance Law. He has extensive experience representing insurers and reinsurers in courts around the country as well as before arbitral panels.

Jon focuses his practice in the legacy and runoff sectors and has a proven track record of counselling and litigating many issues of particular importance to this sector, including buybacks, trigger, stacking, allocation and number of occurrences. He also has particular experience counselling on and litigating third-party and first-party bad faith, and clients frequently seek out his advice when confronted with these high-stakes issues.

His representative experience includes representing an insurer in a bad faith suit in Massachusetts arising from the alleged failure to settle once liability had become clear, where the client faced treble damages; representing an insurer in New York in connection with claims brought by Insurance Law § 3420 claimants alleging that a buyback was fraudulent; counselling an insurer in connection with an eight-figure excess judgment arising from an accident on a movie set; representing a reinsurer in an arbitration concerning improper underwriting and claim cessions; representing a reinsurer in a suit in California concerning improper claim allocation across triggered policy periods; representing an insurer in a suit in New York against a managing agent and claims administrator concerning improper policy cancellation; representing an insurer in a suit in New Jersey concerning the impact of Superstorm Sandy on New Jersey Transit’s insurance programme; representing an insurer in a suit in California concerning warranty claims arising from hundreds of thousands of defective solar panels; counselling an excess carrier on its rights against an insured for failure to settle within an SIR with respect to vehicle rollover claims; representing an insurer in a suit in New Jersey concerning the number of occurrences arising from abuse and molestation claims; and representing a primary insurer in a suit in California arising from an excess carrier’s allegation that the primary insurer had failed to accept a 998 demand.

He is recognised in Best Lawyers in America for Insurance Law (2025–2027). He is a member of ARIAS (AIDA Reinsurance and Insurance Arbitration Society) and AIRROC (Association of Insurance & Reinsurance Run-Off Companies), and coaches the Interscholastic Moot Court Board at Seton Hall University School of Law.

Prior to joining Dentons, Jon worked at national and major local firms located in New Jersey, and clerked for Judge Jane Grall of New Jersey’s Appellate Division.

His practice areas include appellate advocacy, dispute risk management, employment and labour, insurance litigation and arbitration, litigation and dispute resolution, and reinsurance. He holds a JD, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, from Seton Hall University School of Law (2008) and a BA, Cum Laude, in Classical Civilizations from New York University (2004).