Marino, Joseph Anthony

Ms. Mapes is a member of the Business Services and Captive Insurance teams teams at Paul Frank + Collins, with a focus on captive insurance, trademarks, and copyrights.

Ms. Mapes’ captive insurance practice involves advising clients with respect to pure and association captives, risk retention groups, reciprocal captives and other alternative insurance arrangements; specifically with respect to the tax, regulatory and legal ramifications of various transactions, entity structures, contract negotiations and insurance programs.

The captive insurance team of Paul Frank + Collins has expertise in multiple industries and facilitates insurance solutions for companies, most of which are Fortune 500s with captives in Vermont, South Carolina and Arizona. The firm’s risk retention group clients are largely representative of the health care industry.

Ms. Mapes has been monitoring the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and other industry regulators for reactions to the Government Accountability Office’s report on risk retention groups.

Ms. Mapes is a frequent lecturer at captive insurance conferences, including the Vermont Captive Insurance Association conference (the largest captive insurance conference in the world) and captive forums in Bermuda. She has also been a guest lecturer at Vermont Law School on the topic of captive insurance and serves on the Boards of Directors for many of the Vermont captive insurance companies represented by Paul Frank + Collins.

Ms. Mapes practices Intellectual Property Law with respect to trademark and copyright matters, including the traditional uses of intellectual property and the application of these laws to the Internet. She serves businesses and institutions located throughout the U.S. and Quebec during product and service planning phases, successfully prosecuting trademark applications and advising when oppositions and domain name disputes arise.