New Appleman Insurance Law Practice Guide

Jeffrey E. Thomas is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Dean Thomas graduated from Loyola Marymount University in 1983, and received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall), in 1986. He is a member of the California State Bar, the American Bar Association, the Association of American Law Schools, and the Asia Pacific Risk and Insurance Association. Dean Thomas is President of the Asia Pacific Risk and Insurance Association, a Past Chair of the Insurance Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, and has served in various leadership positions in the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section of the ABA. Dean Thomas is author of numerous articles on Insurance Law published in the United States and internationally. His work has been presented at academic and professional meetings throughout the U.S. and in Australia, China, Europe, Hong Kong, Korea, India, Taiwan, and Thailand. He is the co-author with Alan I. Widiss of the three-volume treatise "Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Insurance" published by LexisNexis, has been on the Editorial Board of the CGL Reporter, and is an Advisor to the Connecticut Insurance Law Journal. Dean Thomas previously served as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago, a Fulbright Fellow in China, and the Tiera M. Farrow Faculty Scholar at UMKC.

Leo P. Martinez is the Albert Abramson Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Professor Martinez earned his B.S. in Physics at the University of Kansas in 1971 and his M.S. in Systems Analysis from the University of Southern California in 1975. Upon earning his law degree from Hastings in 1978, he met his military obligation by serving on active duty in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps after which he practiced law with the Howard Rice law firm in San Francisco. He joined the Hastings Faculty in 1985 and served as Academic Dean of the College from 1993 through 2005. At Hastings, Professor Martinez teaches Insurance Law, Contracts and Federal Income Tax. He is co-author of a text on Insurance Law and a text on Estate Planning for the Owners of Closely Held Corporations. He has published and lectured extensively on matters of insurance law, tax policy, and education administration. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute (ALI). He is both an academic advisor to the ALI's new Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance and a past Chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Insurance Law. Professor Martinez is a past president of the AALS and he is a current member of the ABA Council on the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.

Doug Richmond is Managing Director of the Professional Services Group of Aon Risk Solutions. Before joining Aon, Doug was a partner with Armstrong Teasdale LLP in Kansas City, Missouri (1989–2004), where he had a national trial and appellate practice. In his time at Armstrong Teasdale, he tried numerous major cases as "first chair" and was often engaged to handle appeals of cases tried by other lawyers. In 1998, he was named the nation's top defense lawyer in an insurance industry poll as reported in the publications Inside Litigation and Of Counsel. He is a member of the American Bar Foundation, American Law Institute (ALI), American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC), and Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel (FDCC). He serves as an Adviser to the ALI in the preparation of the Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance. In 2003, the Euromoney Legal Media Group named him as one of the nation's top insurance and reinsurance lawyers. Doug is the co-author of an insurance law treatise, Understanding Insurance Law (5th ed. 2012) and an insurance law casebook, Cases and Materials on Insurance Law (7th ed. 2013). He is one of three named editors of the New Appleman Insurance Law Practice Guide. He has published more than 50 articles in university law reviews, and many more articles in other scholarly and professional journals. Doug teaches Insurance Law and a seminar on Liability Insurance Law at the University of Florida College of Law. He previously taught Trial Advocacy and Insurance Law at the University of Kansas School of Law, and Insurance Law and a seminar on Damages at the University of Missouri School of Law. He received his J.D. from the University of Kansas. Opinions expressed here are solely the author's and do not reflect the views of Aon or its clients.

Marc S. Mayerson is principal of the The Mayerson Firm PLLC and has represented policyholders nationwide in property-casualty insurance-recovery matters and has provided insurance counseling for thirty years. Mr. Mayerson has been included as one of Insurance Law's Best Lawyers® in America 2016, Chambers & Partners 2016, and Superlawyers 2016® and was recognized as one of the 10 "Leading Lawyers" in insurance law in Washington, DC. He also teaches the insurance-law course at both the Georgetown University Law Center and the George Washington University law school. He has published on numerous topics including settlement, defense, and bad faith; made numerous speeches and presentations in the US and Europe on insurance issues; and has trained professional mediators on insurance issues. Mr. Mayerson also is a commercial arbitrator and mediator, including having been appointed as one of the Superstorm Sandy mediators by the State of New York. A graduate of the University of Michigan (with Highest Distinction, High Honors, Phi Beta Kappa in 1983) and Harvard Law School (magna cum laude in 1986), where he was a member of the Harvard Law Review, Mr. Mayerson clerked for The Honorable Stephen R. Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.