Ana M. Zgela
Associate
Phone:
800-870-5521
Email:
[email protected]
Cleveland – Main Office:
1250 Granger Road
Cleveland, OH 44131-1234
Ana M. Zgela has spent her entire legal career handling insurance subrogation claims and insurance arbitration claims; she has been the lead Arbitration Attorney at Rathbone Group since 2014. Ana represents insurance carriers in the recovery of their auto, property and bodily injury claims in Arbitration Forums. She is also responsible for fielding subrogation arbitration issues that arise internally or on files forwarded to its nationwide network of local counsel.
Ana received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Allegheny College in Meadville, PA in 1997 where she majored in Environmental Studies and minored in Political Science, receiving departmental honors, the National Deans List Award, and the Four-Year Alden Scholar Award. While attending university, Ana interned at the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in Washington DC. She was a legal intern for the Northwest Regional Council for the Department of Environmental Protection in Meadville, PA. Ana was also a co-founder of “Grounds for Change” – the first volunteer and student run coffeehouse on campus, which is still in operation today.
Ana attended Case Western Reserve University School of Law from 1998-2001. In 2000 she was selected as a federal judicial law clerk for the Honorable Magistrate Judge Patricia Hemann. In the summer after her second year of law school, Ana was hired as a law clerk for Javitch, Block, Eisen & Rathbone. She completed her J.D. at Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 2001 and was admitted to the Ohio State Bar later that same year.
After law school, Ana was hired as a subrogation attorney at Javitch, Block & Rathbone from 2003-2014, where she was involved in all aspects of civil litigation including, but not limited to, first chair trial experience, arbitration, mediation, and taking and defending depositions.
Ana has repeatedly had original articles on subrogation case studies and other topics featured in legal journals and NASP publications, and is a host on Rathbone Group’s educational podcast series, On Subrogation. In her free time Ana enjoys spending time with her daughter and husband traveling, skiing, and hiking.
Education
- Allegheny College, magna cum laude, 1997
- Case Western Reserve University School of Law, JD, 2001
Bar Admissions
- Ohio
Published Works
- Zgela, Ana. “Beyond the Courtroom: Maximum Recovery in Arbitration Forums Leads to $165,000 Property Damage Award.” NASP Subrogator. Spring 2018.
- Zgela, A. and Rathbone, K. “Wait – You Haven’t Used Arbitration Forums Yet?” Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Journal. February 2018.
Speaking Engagements
NASP Columbus, Ohio Chapter
- “Tips, Techniques and Innovative Approaches to Intercompany Arbitration.”, 2016
Podcasts
On Subrogation Podcast
• “Arbitration Award Enforcement,” Airdate April 15, 2022
• “Arbitration Decision: The End… Or Is It?,” Airdate October 15, 2021