Eric Scheiner

Practice Areas

Insurance and claims

Bermuda form

Caribbean practice

Cyber risks

Directors and officers liability

Financial institutions

Professional liability

Reinsurance

Insurance coverage

Employers' liability

General liability

Arbitration

Sustainability and Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG)

Construction and engineering

Healthcare

Insurance and reinsurance

Career

A partner in our Chicago office, Eric is an insurance specialist with over 20 years’ experience representing clients in the London, Bermuda, and US markets. His practice focuses heavily on coverage matters, such as directors’ and officers’ liability, professional liability, cyber liability, employment liability, managed care/healthcare, general liability (including the Bermuda Form),construction and reinsurance.

Eric has considerable experience in handling high-profile claims involving multi-million-dollar shareholder class actions, derivative actions, product liability and pharmaceutical claims, as well as claims arising from natural disasters.

Internationally, he is sought by clients seeking experienced representation for their complex litigation and arbitrations involving various types of policies and/or claims in the US, Europe, Asia, South America, the Middle East, the Caribbean and Australia.

Eric is also frequently asked to speak on various insurance-related topics and to contribute in the drafting of a range of insurance policies and endorsements.

Eric is a member of the American Bar Association: Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, and the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS). He received his law degree from The John Marshall Law School, cum laude, in 1996, where he served as Editor-in-chief of The John Marshall Law Review.

Eric contributed to the writing of Kennedys' 'Global forecast 2025: Negotiating the interconnection of evolving risks' report, published in February 2025.

Eric also contributed to the writing of Kennedys' ‘Rewriting the risk: Addressing the challenge of climate change’ report, which was published in July 2022.

Publications

“D&O trends in the US and the UK,” presented at Kennedys Hot Topics Conference (October 2024)

Co-author, "New DOJ whistleblower pilot program and its potential impact on D&O and E&O policies," published for Kennedys (October 2024)

Quoted in, “DOJ Whistleblower Program Could Prompt D&O Policy Review,” Law360 (August 2024)

Co-author, “Key differences in the legal privileges in the US and England,” published for Kennedys (September 2023)

“The SEC’s Proposed Rule on Climate-Related Disclosures: Potential Concerns for General Liability Carriers,” published in Law360 (February 2023)

Co-author, “Rewriting the risk: addressing the challenge of climate change,” published for Kennedys (July 2022)

Quoted in, “Litigation is on the Rise: Have You Got D&O Cover?” Insider Engage (March 2022)

Co-author, “Causing climate change…a new tort? A cross-jurisdictional review,” published for Kennedys (February 2022)

Co-author, “How The First Federal Appellate Decision Assessing COVID-19 Business Interruption Claims May Impact Similar Cases Going Forward,” published for Kennedys (September 2021)

Co-author, “Storm Clouds Ahead: The US Supreme Court sidesteps issues relevant to ESG and climate change, while international and other pressures on corporate and D&O disclosures continue to mount,” published in the PLUS app (July 2021)

Co-author, “Why D&I Matters to D&O: Exposures from diversity-driven lawsuits,” published by Insurance Day (February 2021)

Co-author, “Financial Institutions Feeling Direct Pressure to Address Climate Change Concerns,” published in Kennedys London Market Brief (May 2020)

Co-author, “Potential D&O Risks Arising from Corporate Social Responsibility,” published in the D&O Diary and PLUS Journal (February and March 2020)

Work Highlights

Instructed in relation to multiple significant directors and officers matters, including In re Mutual Funds Investment Litigation, mortgage-backed securities litigation, Libor-related litigation, as well as individual securities and ERISA class actions involving large US and non-US companies and service providers.

Instructed in relation to multiple significant professional liability matters involving law firms, accountants, and consultants.

Instructed in relation to significant, multi-million dollar individual and class action employment practices liability claims involving large US and non-US companies and financial institutions.

Instructed in relation to multiple construction defect claims involving litigation pending in Nevada and California arising from building and conversion of condominium projects.

Instructed in relation to a multi-billion claims against multiple companies in relation to various California and other wildfires in the western US.

Instructed in relation to filing anti-suit proceedings in Bermuda and London with respect to enforcement of London and Bermuda arbitration provisions.

Prevailed in a London arbitration with respect to a multi-million claim involving the insured’s manufacture and sale of building products.

Acting for insurers in relation to personal injuries arising from a manufacturer’s sale of guardrail end terminal systems pending in multiple state and federal jurisdictions.

Awards