The late Alan I. Widiss was the Josephine R. Witte Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law. Professor Widiss graduated from the University of Southern California School of Law in 1963, and received a Masters Degree from Harvard School of Law in 1964. He was a member of the California State Bar, the American Law Institute, the American Bar Association, and was a Past Chairperson of the American Bar Association Torts and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution.
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.