Eric C Scheiner

• Global Leader for Professional Liability, Who’s Who Legal Professional Negligence 2021 and 2022

• 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.

Presentations

• “Bermuda Form Basics and Claims Handling,” In-House Client Training (November 2021)
• “Bankruptcy and its Impact on the Claims Process,” In-House Client Training (June 2021)
• “Social Accountability in the Boardroom,” presented at Kennedys Hot Topics Conference (October 2019)
• “Directors and Officers Liability Insurance 101 and Current Claims Trends,” In-House Client Training (October 2019)
• “Watch You’re A-Side: Growing Concerns About Shareholder Derivative Actions,” In-House Client Training (October 2019)
• “The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Financial Lines: Limitless Opportunities or Risky Propositions?” In-House Client Training (June 2019)
• “Wildfire Liability Claims,” presented for AIRROC London Education Day (June 2019)
• “The Opioids Crises: How We Got Here and Where We Are Now,” presented at Capstone LLC (April 9, 2019)
• “Just Getting Started – How Changing Social Norms and New Legislation in the #MeToo Era Will Impact Employment Liability Claims,” presented at the CLIM 2019 Annual Conference (March 14, 2019)
• “Wildfire Liability Claims,” presented to Wholesale & Specialty Insurance Association (June 7, 2018)
• “‘Frankenatomy’ of Cyber Aggregation,” presented at the Bermuda Healthcare Forum (April 24, 2018)
• “What is Keeping General Liability Claims Handlers Up at Night?  A Discussion of Concerning Legacy, Present and Future Claim Trends,”  presented at the 7th Annual Bermuda Insurance Market Conference (October 13, 2017)
• “Bermuda Form Basics and Claims Handling:  Pharma, Energy and Beyond,” presented at the Bermuda Insurance Institute (April 2017)
• “The Latest on Cyber Oversight Needed at the Board Level and Trends in Cyberbreach-Related D&O Cases (Public and Private),” presented at the American Conference Institute’s 20th Forum on D&O Liability (July 27, 2016)
• “Up, Down or Sideways? The Recent Direction of Securities Class Actions and What Plaintiffs’ Firms May Be Considering to Compensate,” presented in-house to clients (October 1, 2015)
• “Shareholder Derivative Litigation, Including M&A Litigation Brought Derivatively, and the Increasing Importance of Side A,” presented at the American Conference Institute’s 19th Forum on D&O Liability (September 18, 2015)
• “The Duty to Cooperate, The Right to Associate and Anti-Suit Injunctions,” presented in-house to clients (September 15, 2015)
• “Is Your Bermuda Insured a Target for Cyber-Liability Related Claims?” presented in-house to clients (October 15, 2014)
• “Deciphering the U.S. Securities Laws: Key Issues and Concepts for Insurers,” presented in-house to Bermudan and London market clients (July 30, July 16, and July 7, 2014)
• “The Bermuda Form – the Basics,” co-presented at the Bermuda Insurance Institute (March 27, 2014)
• “Information Overload: Issues Relating to Cyber Liability,” co-presented at the 5th Annual XLIB Claims & Litigation Management Workshop (December 4-5, 2013)

Publications

• 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 8, 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)
• “Reputation – In An Environment of Increasing Leadership Accountabilities,” presented at AIRMIC seminar and for individual clients (February and May 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)
• Co-author, “D&O Trends in the US,” published for Kennedys (March 2019)
• Co-author, “No Longer the Scapegoat – the Future of Professional Negligence Claims Against Insurance Brokers,” published for Kennedys (March 2019)
• Co-author, "Vine to Wine, and the Fire in Between - The Growing Insurance Implications of the California Wildfires," published for Kennedys (December 2018)
• Co-author, "Just Getting Started - How Changing Social Norms and New Legislation in the #MeToo Era Will Impact Employment Liability Claims," published in the PLUS Journal (October 2018)
• Co-author, "EPL Claims: Changing Norms and New Legislation in the #MeToo Era," published in the D&O Diary (August 2018)
• Author, “Wildfire Liability from a US Perspective,” published for Kennedys (January 2018)
• “The Insuring Agreements,” Chapter 2 in the Directors & Officers Liability Insurance Deskbook, Fourth Edition, published by the American Bar Association, Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (2016)
• Co-author, “Defense Obligations,” Chapter 5 in the Directors & Officers Liability Insurance Deskbook, Fourth Edition, published by the American Bar Association, Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (2016)
• Co-author, “United States” in the Directors’ Liability and Indemnification, published by Global Law and Business Ltd. (2016)
• Co-author, “Late Payment Damages Regime Could Gerald US Bad Faith Litigation in the UK,” published in Insurance Day (September 7, 2016)
• Co-author, “Fracking, Earthquakes and Insurance: A Collision Course?” published in Insurance Journal (May 18, 2015)
• Co-author, “High Court Likely Won’t Affirm 6th Circ. Omnicare Ruling,” published in Law360 (November 4, 2014)
• Co-author, “Omnicare: The Other Securities Case Directors and Officers Should be Worried About,” published in InsideCounsel (July 31, 2014)
• Co-author, “Reinsurance Sidecars – Don’t Ride Without a Helmet,” published in Law360 (January 16, 2014)
• Co-author, “Here We Go Again? Financial Institutions Face Heightened Regulatory Scrutiny Over Forex and Other Unregulated Rates,” published in Plus Journal, Professional Liability Underwriting Society, Volume XXVII, Number 1 (January 2014); republished in The D&O Diary (January 2014); republished in The D&O Diary (January 2014).
• Co-author, “Move Over Subprime? Financial Institutions and Brokers Face Increasing Concerns Over Allegation of Improper Libor Manipulation,” published in Plus Journal, Professional Liability Underwriting Society, Volume XXV, Number 5 (May 2012)