Understanding Insurance Law

Following graduation from the University of Michigan Law School in 1977, a clerkship with Judge George E. MacKinnon of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and three years of practice with an Indianapolis law firm, he joined the faculty at the University of Kansas School of Law in 1981. He was promoted to Professor in 1985 and became Dean of the KU School of Law in 1989, positions he held until accepting the Herff Chair at the University of Memphis in 1994.

He is currently Dean and Levin Mabie & Levin Professor of Law at the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law. He is the author of Understanding Insurance Law and numerous articles in the field of insurance law. He is also co-author of Insurance Law: Cases and Materials. He is a past chair of the Insurance Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, a member of the American Law Institute, and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. In 1992 he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Indiana State University, his undergraduate alma mater.

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.