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Scott Seaman
Scott Seaman is a corporate trial lawyer with a national practice focused on insurance, reinsurance, and complex commercial litigation and arbitrations. He also is an author, speaker, radio and television host, and cancer patient advocate.
==Legal career==
Seaman is a partner at the law firm of Meckler Bulger Tilson Marick & Pearson LLP in Chicago, Illinois, where he serves as chairman of the firm’s Insurance Coverage Counseling and Litigation practice group. 〔(Meckler Bulger Tilson Marick & Pearson LLP )〕〔(Attorney Profile Scott M. Seaman )〕 〔(Scott M. Seaman )〕 He has been counsel in numerous insurance coverage cases that resulted in important rulings in the insurance law arena. In one case, the Illinois Supreme Court recognized that insurers have due process rights and are entitled to proceedings to contest coverage issues.〔Central Illinois Public Service Co. v. Allianz Underwriters Ins. Co., 633 N.E.2d 675 (Ill. 1994).〕 In an insurance bad faith case, the California Court of Appeals reversed an $11 million verdict against an insurer, finding the insurer acted reasonably and should not be subject to punitive damages or to having to pay the policyholder’s legal fees.〔Griffin Dewatering Corp. v. Northern Ins. Co. of N.Y., (Cal. App. 2009).〕 In a highly publicized case, the New York Court of Appeals held that each asbestos claim asserted against General Electric constituted a single occurrence, precluding it from accessing its excess insurance policies.〔Appalachian Ins. Co. v. General Electric Co., 863 N.E.2d 994 (N.Y. 2007).〕 In another case, the Delaware Supreme Court held that insurers had no duty to defend or indemnify a tobacco company with respect to tobacco personal injury claims based upon policy exclusions. 〔Liggett Group, Inc. v. Ace Property and Cas. Ins. Co., 798 A.2d 1024 (Del. 2002).〕
Seaman has been counsel in several cases involving allocation of large losses among insurers and policyholders, including the landmark New Jersey Supreme Court ''Owens Illinois v. United Ins. Ltd''. case. The issue of allocation concerns how losses are divided among various insurers and the policyholder. The issue is most commonly presented in "long tail" or latent injury claims such as asbestos bodily injury claims or environmental property damage claims, where there is a delay between exposure to a substance and resulting injury or damage. Seaman is co-author of one of the leading insurance and reinsurance treatises: Allocation of Losses in Complex Insurance Coverage Cases (Thomson Reuters 2010), by S.M. Seaman and J.R. Schulze.〔Holdings record: Allocation of losses in complex insurance coverage claims". Law Library Catalog. State Law Library of Mississippi. Retrieved 20 December 2009.〕 This book was relied upon by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in its recent insurance coverage decision on allocation.〔Boston Gas Co. v. Century Indemnity Co., 454 Mass. 337 (Mass. 2009).〕 Seaman also is involved in global warming claims and insurance coverage issues, co-authoring a leading article on the subject "Emerging Issues: Global Warming Claims And Coverage Issues"〔Seaman, Scott (2009). "Emerging Issues: Global Warming Claims And Coverage Issues". Defense Counsel Journal 76 (January 2009).〕 and serving on the Defense Research Institute’s Climate Change Litigation Task Force. He is a past Vice Chair of the American Bar Association Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section’s Excess, Surplus Lines and Reinsurance Committee. He has received numerous distinctions. 〔((highest rating AV 5.0/Preemient) )〕 〔((best lawyers in insurance/reinsurance law) )〕 〔((Illinois Superlawyer 2005-2011) )〕 〔(dead link )〕 〔(dead link )〕 〔(Justice John C. Hayes Award Winner) )〕 〔((Chief Justice Roger G. Taney Award Winner) )〕 〔((Judge John V. McCormick Award Winner) )〕 〔((Thomas L. Owens Award Winner) )〕
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