Eric L. Routman, Esq. is a highly qualified commercial mediator and arbitrator. He specializes in resolving insurance coverage disputes relating to commercial property and casualty policies, professional liability and directors and officers liability policies, fiduciary and employment liability policies, and facultative and treaty reinsurance agreements.

ADR Experience and Qualifications

• 25 years experience as a commercial litigator
• 2006 to Present: Principal, the Law Offices of Eric Routman, Northbrook, IL
• 2004 to 2006: Partner, The Krafsur Law Group, LLC, Chicago, IL
• 2000 to 2004: Vice President at ALAS, Inc., a Risk Retention Group, Chicago, IL. ALAS is the largest captive insurer of large law firms in the United States.
• 1989 to 1999: Associate and Partner at Rivkin Radler & Kremer, Chicago, IL
• Commercial Dispute Resolution Specialist: Trials, Discovery, Motions and Appeals in Federal and State Courts; Arbitration and Mediation
• 10 years experience as an arbitrator
• 10 years experience as a mediator
• Seminars on Managing Insurance Coverage Disputes, Trial Practice, Underwriting and Claims Management, Reinsurance, and related ADR issues

Representative Insurance and Reinsurance Mediations and Arbitrations:

• Policyholder and insurer claims and counterclaims relating to the scope of coverage under commercial general liability insurance policies. $85,000,000 in liability limits at issue.
• Policyholder and insurer claims and counterclaims relating to the duty to defend under commercial general liability policies. Claims related to: underlying environmental contamination claims, additional insured claims arising from underlying construction claims, product liability claims, and premises liability claims.
• Policyholder and insurer claims and counterclaims relating to professional liability policies. $20,000,000 in limits at issue.
• Policyholder and insurer bad faith claims.
• $10,000,000 fiduciary liability coverage claim.
• $30,000,000 inter-insurer dispute over apportionment of loss over a multi-year loss period.
• $15,000,000 dispute between primary and umbrella liability insurers relating to professional liability coverage.
• 17,000,000 facultative reinsurance dispute relating to environmental loss.

Honors, Memberships and Professional Activities

• Member - American Bar Association. Currently Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association International Dispute Resolution Committee – Liaison to the ABA Tort and Insurance Practice Section’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee.
• Mr. Routman is an active author, lecturer and teacher regarding insurance related issues. He regularly speaks throughout the country on a myriad of insurance topics relating to his practice areas of expertise.
• Author, “Investigating the Feasibility of a New Off-Shore Captive Domicile: An American Indian Reservation,” CPCU Journal, Fall, 1999.
• Author, “The Insured Filed for Bankruptcy: What's Next for the Insurer,” Journal of Reinsurance, Spring, 1999.
• Author, “Back to the Future: Coverage Claims Under Corporate Predecessor Liability
• Policies for CERCLA Liability,” CPCU Journal, Summer, 1998
• Author, “Declaratory Judgment Expense: Who Pays?,” Global Reinsurance, Fall, 1994.
• Author, “Cleaning Up America: Superfund and its Impact on the Insurance Industry,” CPCU Journal, Fall, 1988.
• Board Member & Faculty, Insurance School of Chicago.
• Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation in 1985. Board Member (1994 – present), Former President of the Chicago CPCU Chapter (1998 - 2000). Co-founder (1993) and former Chair (1996-1999) of CPCU national section Consultants, Litigators and Expert Witnesses. Former National Governor of the CPCU Society (2000 – 2003) and former member of the CPCU Society Executive Governing Committee (2002 – 2003).

Licenses to Practice

• Illinois
• District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals

Background and Education

• John Marshall Law School, J.D.
• George Washington University, B. BA., Accounting