Biography

Mariacté Correa-Cestero is a capital member in the Litigation Department at O’Neill & Borges LLC. She joined O’Neill & Borges in 1996. Ms. Correa-Cestero has represented a wide variety of corporate clients in both extrajudicial and judicial claims, including claims dealing with distribution and franchising, construction, government bids, insurance, health law, product liability and personal injury, land use regulations and environmental law. In addition, she represents corporate clients in administrative agency proceedings, as well as in arbitration and mediation proceedings related to contractual health insurance, construction, and general insurance law issues. She is licensed to practice in both federal and local state court systems, and has more than 25 years of litigation experience in said forums.

Among her many cases involving the construction industry, she has represented a contractor specializing in under-water construction projects in resolving various disputes with the project owner; a multinational corporation participating as a general contractor in Puerto Rico, facing various multi-party litigations related to construction defects, mold and environmental damages claims; and local general contractors in administrative and judicial construction claims related to the Horizontal Property law. She has also represented local developers before the Department of Consumer Affairs, as well as the Puerto Rico Department of Housing in arbitration and mediation proceedings related to construction and renovation projects. In recent years, she has represented commercial property insureds in litigations filed before federal and local courts against property insurance companies claiming for the damages caused by Hurricane María in Puerto Rico.

In the insurance and health law practice area, she has represented health insurance companies in a wide variety of cases before judicial and administrative forums, including health providers’ claims, appraisal value actions, regulatory issues before the Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration, The Patients’ Advocate Office and the Puerto Rico Insurance Commissioner’s Office, as well as controversies related to the administration of health maintenance organizations.