Biography

Eric C. Scheiner's practice focuses on coverage matters, with a concentration on directors and officers liability, professional liability, employment liability and general liability policies, and reinsurance. Mr. Scheiner has also represented domestic and international insurers and reinsurers in coverage litigation and arbitrations and has assisted in drafting various insurance policies.

Presentations & Publications

Mr. Scheiner's publications include:

• Coauthor, "Auction Rate Securities: Going Once, Going Twice, Or Not Going At All? Evaluating The Latest Fallout Of The Credit Crunch," Mealey's Litigation Report: Emerging Securities Litigation (May 2008); PLUS Journal, Professional Liability Underwriting Society, Volume XXI, Number 8 (August 2008). 
• Coauthor, "Auction rate securities failure implications," Insurance Day (May 2, 2008).
• "Public Problems on the Horizon for Private Equity? The Boom and Potential Risks in Buyouts of Public Companies," PLUS Journal , Professional Liability Underwriting Society, Volume XX, Number 2 (February 2007) (coauthor, Edward J. Kirk).
• Contributing editor, "The Insuring Agreements," Chapter 3, and "Defense Obligations," Chapter 6, of "Directors and Officers Liability Insurance Deskbook," American Bar Association, Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (Fall 2006). 
• "Recent Claim Trends in the Mutual Fund Industry," Directions and Outlooks - Professional Lines Perspectives , Benfield, Issue 1, at 12-21 (July 2004) (coauthor, Jennifer Quinn Broda).  
• "Can an Act Be Both Negligent and Intentional?: Liability Insurance and the Adjudicated Dishonesty Exclusion," Mealey's Emerging Insurance Disputes , Volume 9, Number 2 (January 20, 2004) (coauthor, C. Kinnier Lastimosa). 
• "Taking the Public Out of Determining Public Policy: The Need for an Appropriate Scope of Bargaining Test in the Illinois Public Sector," 29 J. Marshall L. Rev. 531 (1996).

Mr. Scheiner's presentations include:

• "Subprime and the Credit Crunch: Understanding the Basics, the Fallout, and What to Expect Next," co-presented at the Bermuda Insurance Institute (Hamilton, Bermuda, March 16, 2010).
• "Chinese Drywall: Background, Exposure, and Insurance Coverage Issues," presented at various client sites (in Dublin, Ireland and Hamilton, Bermuda, summer and fall 2009).
• "Don't Get Burned: Underwriting Wildfire Risk," presented at various client sites (in Dublin, Ireland and Hamilton, Bermuda, summer and fall 2009).
• "The Bermuda Occurrence Reported Form: Background, Overview and Recurring Claims Issues," presented at various client sites (Hamilton, Bermuda, various dates in 2009).
• "Not Just Subprime: Evaluating the Exposure Presented by Ponzi Schemes and Other Repercussions of the Credit Crunch," Sedgwick’s Seventh Annual Hot Topics Seminar for the Bermuda Insurance Market (Hamilton, Bermuda, October 7, 2009).
• "The Ever-Changing World of U.S. Employment Law," co-presented at the Bermuda Insurance Institute (Hamilton, Bermuda, August 19, 2009).
• "Subprime and the Credit Crunch: Understanding the Basics and the Litigation Fallout," co-presented at the Bermuda Insurance Institute (Hamilton, Bermuda, December 17, 2008).
• "Auction Rate Securities: Going Once, Going Twice or Not Going At All? Evaluating the Latest Fallout of the Credit Crunch," Sedgwick’s 21st Annual London Insurance Seminar (October 2008).
• "Subprime Litigation and Its Seemingly Ever-Expanding Reach," Sedgwick’s Sixth Annual Hot Topics Seminar for the Bermuda Insurance Market (October 2008).
• "With Opportunity Comes Risk: The Boom and Potential Risks in Private Equity and Hedge Funds," presented at Sedgwick's 20th Annual London Insurance Seminar (London, England, September 21, 2007) and at Sedgwick's Fifth Annual Hot Topics Seminar for the Bermuda Insurance Market (Hamilton, Bermuda, September 12, 2007).
• "Directors & Officers Liability Insurance Coverage 101: The Basics," presented at XL Insurance (Bermuda) Ltd. (Hamilton, Bermuda, January 31,2008); also presented at the Bermuda Insurance Institute (Hamilton, Bermuda, June 20 & 21, 2007).
• "Potential Risks From the Boom in Private Equity," presented at the PLUS Southwest Chapter's Educational Seminar (Denver, Colorado, April 4, 2007). 
• "The Options Backdating Scandal: Is This the Tip of the Iceberg?", presented at Sedgwick's Fourth Annual Hot Topics Seminar for the Bermuda Insurance Market (Hamilton, Bermuda, October 4, 2006). 
• "The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005: Problem Sorted or Still a Big Mess?", presented at Sedgwick's 18th Annual London Insurance Seminar (London, England, October 18, 2005).
• "Wall Street on Trial," presented at Sedgwick's Second Annual Hot Topics Seminar for the Bermuda Insurance Market (Hamilton, Bermuda, October 27, 2004). 
• "The U.S. Mutual Fund Scandal and Implications for the London Insurance Market," The Old Lloyd's Library (London, England, February 5, 2004). 

Memberships & Honors

Mr. Scheiner is a member of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) and the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association.

While in law school, Mr. Scheiner served as editor-in-chief of The John Marshall Law Review, participated in two different Moot Court teams and received a CALI award for Academic Excellence. After graduating from law school, Mr. Scheiner served as a law clerk for the Michigan Court of Appeals.