Wilder, Robert E.

Robert E. Wilder has thirty years of experience litigating and arbitrating complex reinsurance, insurance, and general commercial matters. His practice focuses on domestic and international reinsurance disputes involving traditional reinsurance,finite reinsurance, captive arrangements, insurer insolvencies, pools and managing general agencies. Mr. Wilder has litigated and arbitrated reinsurance coverage issues arising from a variety of underlying claims, including asbestos, environmental pollution, clergy sex abuse, silica, worker's compensation, personal accident, permanent disability and bail bonds. These proceedings have involved issues such as allocation, aggregation, negligent supervision, deficient underwriting, follow the settlements, annualization of limits, setoff, late notice, misrepresentation and spirals. Mr. Wilder regularly appears before arbitration panels and courts throughout the United States. He also counsels clients on a wide variety of 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
United States District Court, Southern District of New York, 1981
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2010

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