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Timestamp: 2019-04-22 06:36:32+00:00

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Mark G. Sheridan is a partner with diverse experience in many areas of litigation, with particular expertise in reinsurance and insurance coverage disputes. He has successfully argued matters in the Supreme Courts of Illinois and New Hampshire, as well as lower state and federal courts in California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Mark has received many professional awards, including recognition by Who’s Who Insurance and Reinsurance 2017, Illinois Super Lawyer in the practice of insurance coverage, and the prestigious “Leading Lawyers,” which recognizes the top 5% of insurance counsel.
Mark has arbitrated and litigated numerous reinsurance disputes under both treaties and facultative certificates, and he regularly advises ceding companies and reinsurers on their rights and obligations under a wide variety of reinsurance contracts. Mark has also successfully represented insurance companies in numerous complex insurance coverage disputes involving underlying claims of environmental property damage, construction defects, personal injury and advertising injury claims, and various toxic torts, including breast implants and asbestos.
Confidential Reinsurance Arbitration, 2017. Reinsurers not liable for any portion of cedent’s billing based on aggregation of asbestos bodily injury losses.
Pacific Employers Insurance Co. v. GLOBAL Reinsurance Corp. of America, 2010 WL 1659760 (E.D. Pa. April 23, 2010), reconsideration denied, 2010 WL 2376131 Judgment on the pleadings for reinsurer; follow the fortunes doctrine did not require the reinsurer to pay expenses in addition to the limits of liability on the facultative certificates.
EnergyNorth Natural Gas Co. v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s, London, 934 A.2d 517 (N.H. 2007) In a matter of first impression, the New Hampshire Supreme Court unanimously adopted pro rata allocation for long-term environmental pollution claims.
Travelers Casualty & Surety Co. v. Gerling Global Reinsurance Corp. of America, 419 F.3d 181 (2d Cir. 2005) Cedent’s post-settlement allocation of loss is controlled by the follow the fortunes doctrine.
Employers Insurance Co. of Wausau v. American Re-Insurance Co., 256 F. Supp. 923 (W.D. Wis. 2003) Cedent’s declaratory judgment costs covered by facultative reinsurance certificates.
Guess, Inc. v. Zurich-American Insurance Co., No. 02C86420 (Cal. Super. 2001) Summary judgment granted for a general liability insurer, holding that the false imprisonment component of the ”personal injury” coverage did not create a duty to defend a clothing manufacturer against claims brought by Vietnamese immigrants who alleged they were held in slave labor camps in central Los Angeles.
Travelers Casualty & Surety Co. v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s of London, 760 N.E.2d 319 (N.Y. 2001) Amicus brief for Reinsurance Association of America; court held that follow the fortunes doctrine does not apply to the interpretation of the reinsurance contract.
Hills v. Bridgeview Little League Association, 745 N.E.2d 1166 (Ill. 2000) In a matter of first impression involving the premises liability of a Little League baseball team, Illinois Supreme Court reversed judgment against the team.

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