Joe Grasso

Joe has advised and defended clients in a wide range of insurance, maritime, and litigation matters for 40 years.  Joe is admitted to practice in New York and Pennsylvania and in a number of Federal Courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the U.S. Maritime Law Association (past Director and past Chair of the Committee on Marine Insurance and General Average), the British Insurance Law Association and the Salvage Forum of the International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI). Joe has been the Chair of the Standing Committee on Marine Insurance of the Comité Maritime International since 2014 and in 2024 was appointed as the CMI liaison to IUMI. He also serves as Vice Chair of the recently formed CMI International Working Group on the Restatement of the Law of Marine Insurance.

In 2023, Joe was elected as a member of the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS). He also served as Chair of the Association of Average Adjusters of the United States and Canada from 2021 to 2023 and currently serves on the board of the Association. He is also a member of the Association of Average Adjusters of the United Kingdom. In November, 2019, he gave a briefing on war risks insurance to the NATO Logistics Committee at NATO Headquarters in Brussels and is now a civilian expert advisor to NATO. He also participated in a briefing to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 2024 and in the Polar Conference at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in August 2025.

Joe has been recognized in Chambers, Best’s Directory of Recommended Insurance Attorneys, Lexology Index, and The Legal 500. He has written and spoken extensively on topics of interest to the insurance industry.

Joe started his own firm at the beginning of 2026 and prior to that was a partner and co-chair of the Insurance Practice Group at Wiggin and Dana in New York and Philadelphia.