Wilder, Robert E.

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Name: 
Robert E. Wilder
atty_type: 
Partner
P: 
(212) 804-4205
F: 
(212) 344-8066
Location: 
New York, NY
E: 
rwilder@moundcotton.com

Robert E. Wilder has more than twenty-five years of experience litigating and arbitrating complex reinsurance, insurance, and general commercial matters.  His practice focuses on property-casualty and accident and health reinsurance disputes in the U.S. and London Markets, including matters concerning allocation, aggregation, misrepresentation, reinsurance spirals, MGA arrangements, pools, insolvency, and finite reinsurance.  He has appeared before numerous arbitration panels and state and federal courts throughout the United States.  Mr. Wilder also counsels clients on reinsurance issues.  He lectures frequently and has published articles on reinsurance and related topics.  Mr. Wilder is a Board Member of HarrisMartin’s Reinsurance Report and co-editor of the firm’s newsletter Reinsurance Law Update.  

Mr. Wilder is a graduate of Binghamton University and New York Law School (magna cum laude).  Prior to joining the firm, he practiced law at Healy & Baillie, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, and Lord Day & Lord, Barrett Smith.  Mr. Wilder is admitted to the New York bar and is a member of the American Bar Association.

PUBLICATIONS

  • Wasa v. Lexington: The War Between England and the American Colonies Has Officially Ended, Premier Vol. 1. No.1, Harris Martin's Reinsurance Report 6 (2008) (co-authored with Sarah E. Rouse)
  • Follow the Settlements: Under What Circumstances is it Applicable to Allocation and Aggregation Determinations?, 18-3 Mealey's Litig. Rep. Reinsurance 14 (June 1, 2007)
  • Tripartite Reinsurance Arbitration: The Case for a Neutral Panel, 16 ALTERNATIVES 137 (CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution) (1998) (reprinted in Spring 1999 Newsletter of the ABA Excess, Surplus Lines & Reinsurance Committee)
  • Aggregation and Allocation of Losses Under Casualty Excess of Loss Reinsurance Agreements: Must a Reinsurer “Follow the Fortunes", JOURNAL OF REINSURANCE, Fall 1997
  • Reinsurance – Third Circuit Limits Duty of Good Faith, 145 N.J.L.J. 584 (1996)
  • The "Event" Debate in Asbestos-Related Excess of Loss Reinsurance Disputes, 31 TORT & INS. L.J. 687 (1996) (co-authored with Michael J. Murphy)

 

MEMBERSHIPS
American Bar Association

ADMITTED TO PRACTICE
New York, 1981
U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1981 

EDUCATION
B.A., State University of New York at Binghamton, 1975
J.D., magna cum laude, New York Law School, 1980