Eugene Wollan

Eugene Wollan, a graduate of Harvard College (cum laude) and Harvard Law School, has concentrated for forty-eight years on property and casualty insurance claims litigation, commercial insurance litigation, and reinsurance controversies. He is the Author of the Treatise Handbook of Reinsurance Law (Aspen Law & Business, 2002). He is co-author with Arthur N. Brook of the chapter on Property Insurance contained in Business Insurance Law and Practice Guide (Matthew Bender, 1989) and with Lawrence S. Greengrass of the chapter on Arbitration of Reinsurance Cases contained in Prosecuting and Defending Insurance Claims (John Wiley & Sons, 1989). Mr. Wollan's articles have appeared in Best's Review , ReActions , Reinsurance , Insurance and Reinsurance Law International , International Insurance Monitor , Insurance Counsel Journal , The United States Reinsurance Report , and Insurance Advocate , and he is a contributing editor on insurance law of The John Liner Review. Mr. Wollan is a member of the Property Insurance Committee and the Reinsurance Committee of the International Association of Defense Counsel, and of the International Society of Barristers, L'Association Internationale de Droit des Assurances (AIDA), the Defense Research Institute, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the New York County Lawyers' Association. He has served as Vice President, Executive Committee member, and member of the Board of Directors of AIDA Reinsurance and Insurance Arbitrators Society (ARIAS-US). He has lectured at seminars and meetings sponsored by, among others, the Defense Research Institute, Tort and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association, ARIAS-US, Mealey's, Euroforum, Loss Executives Association, Insurance Information Institute, Inland Marine Underwriters Association, Executive Enterprises, Inc., New South Wales Reinsurance Discussion Group, Australian Reinsurance Rendezvous, and Australian Insurance Law Association. Mr. Wollan has served as an expert witness and as umpire and arbitrator in insurance and reinsurance disputes, and has testified in Great Britain as an expert witness on New York insurance law. He is certified as an arbitrator and umpire by ARIAS-US. In a recent peer survey, he was named as one of the five leading insurance / reinsurance lawyers in the US and one of the leading twenty in the world, and he was described as "dean of the [reinsurance] bar" and "one of the best insurance arbitrators in the business."  Mr. Wollan is listed in Who's Who in American Law. He is a Colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Army Reserve (Retired), and is an honor graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.