Current Employment

Company:	Self-employed
Position(s) and Responsibilities:	Insurance and reinsurance arbitrator and consultant
Address:	3950 RFD Long Grove, IL 60047
Phone:	847-438-7258
Cell:	847-828-0917
Email:	david3950@comcast.net

Previous Employment

Company:	Swiss Re (2006 to 2009)
Position(s) and Responsibilities:	Senior Vice President & Senior Legal Counsel, member of Dispute Resolution Team that supervised arbitrations and litigation.

Company:	GE Reinsurance Corporation (fka Kemper Reinsurance Company)(1997 to 2006)
Position(s) and Responsibilities:	Various titles in GE Reinsurance Corporation and Kemper Reinsurance Company and its foreign subsidiaries, including General Counsel, Secretary, and Vice President & Assistant Secretary.

Company:	General Reinsurance Corporation (1995 to 1997)
Position(s) and Responsibilities:	Vice President & Assistant General Counsel; counseled direct writing insurers, surplus lines insurers, and reinsurers with respect to compliance, corporate, and regulatory matters, managed State Filings Unit, assisted in establishing foreign offices, secretary for two companies.

Company:	Allstate Insurance Company (1970 to 1995)
Position(s) and Responsibilities:	Various titles in Allstate and affiliated companies including Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel, Commercial Insurance Division; managed commercial and reinsurance legal department, handled and supervised arbitrations, supervised for Allstate In Re Insurance Antitrust Litigation brought by 20 states’ attorneys general, assisted with Allstate IPO.

Credentials

Attorney:	Yes
Education:	Loyola University of Chicago; Georgetown University Law Center
Degrees:	Bachelor of Science; Juris Doctor
Designations:	Admitted to practice law in Illinois, Connecticut, U.S. District Court for the N.D. of Illinois, and U.S. Supreme Court.

Work Experience

Insurance Company: 25 years

Legal Department: 25 years. Vice President & General Counsel, Commercial Insurance Division

Reinsurance Company: 14 years

Legal Department: 14 years. Senior Vice President & Senior Legal Counsel

Breakdown of Experience

Contract Wording   7% Excess/Surplus Lines   7% Commutations   5% Asbestos   5% Automotive Liability/Property   5% Bad Faith/ECO   5% Catastrophes (Casualty)   5% Commercial Liability   5% Personal Lines   5% Product Liability   5%

Regulatory/Licensing   5% Fidelity & Surety   4% Financial Guarantee   3% Finite   3% Insolvencies   3% MGA/MGU   3% Architects & Engineers   3% Environmental/Pollution   3% Professional Liability/Errors & Omissions   2% Toxic Tort   2%

Worker's Compensation   2% Construction Defects   2% Directors & Officers   2% Commercial Property   2% Catastrophes (Property)   2% Captives/Risk Retention Groups   2% Ocean Marine   1% Third Party Administrator   1% Political Risk   1%

By Market

U.S. Market: 80%

U.K. Market: 5%

Bermuda/Off-shore Market: 5%

European Market: 5%

Global Market: 5%

Insurance vs. Reinsurance: 50/50%
Treaty vs. Facultative Reinsurance: 75/25%
Former Insurance or Reinsurance Company Officer

ARIAS Experience

Ethics Training, as Trainee: 1; May 2010

Arbitration Experience

Number of Arbitrations

As an Arbitrator: 3
As an Umpire: 1
As Outside Counsel: 3
As Employee Manager: 110

Arbitrator Experience

Number of Arbitrations

3	Appointed as an arbitrator.

Umpire Experience

Number of Arbitrations

1	Acted as an umpire through an evidentiary hearing of at least one full day and less than three full days regarding the substantive merits of the parties' dispute.

Lead Counsel Experience

Number of Arbitrations

1	Acted as Lead Counsel through to an evidentiary hearing of at least one full day and less than three full days regarding the substantive merits of the parties' dispute.
2	Acted as Lead Counsel through to an evidentiary hearing of at least three full days regarding the substantive merits of the parties' dispute.

Employee Manager Experience

Number of Arbitrations

62	Employee Manager of arbitration.
20	Employee Manager of arbitration through the organizational meeting or the arbitration has only reached this stage.
10	Employee Manager of arbitration through the organizational meeting or the arbitration has only reached this stage as well as significant motions before the panel, panel consultations, and interim awards, but not through the hearing briefs.
15	Employee Manager of arbitration through pre-hearing briefs.
2	Employee Manager of arbitration through evidentiary hearing of at least one full day and less than three full days regarding the substantive merits of the parties' dispute.
1	Employee Manager of arbitration through evidentiary hearing of at least three full day regarding the substantive merits of the parties' dispute.

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