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Adam H. Fleischer
Partner
E-mail:
afleischer@batescarey.com
Phone:
(312) 762-3130
Practice Areas:
Adam H. Fleischer
is a partner whose practice focuses on emerging complex insurance and reinsurance
coverage issues, as well as general commercial litigation. His litigation experience
spans a broad range of issues from a quadriplegic case against the City of Chicago
to reinsurance and insurance matters against Fortune 500 companies and matters
of first impression in Colorado, Idaho and Indiana. Adam has also lectured on
issues relating to e-commerce risks, advertising injury and reinsurance to brokers,
claims handlers and underwriters in Toronto, Texas, California, New York, Kansas,
Arizona and Zurich, Switzerland. In recent years, Adam has regularly been honored by his peers by being selected to Illinois Super Lawyers in the category of insurance coverage. This is an honor bestowed upon the top 5% of Illinois attorneys, as determined by Super Lawyers magazine based upon a yearly survey of peer recognition and professional achievement.
His
publications include:
- “Pollution Exclusion Overview: First Quarter 2007,” 21 Mealey’s Litigation Report: Insurance, No. 21 (April 3, 2007).
- " Insurance
Claims for "Blast Faxes": Why the Courts Have
It Wrong ," 10 Mealey's Emerging Insurance
Disputes , No. 2 (Jan 18, 2005).
- "The
Captive Quandary and the Duty of Utmost Good Faith,"
15 Mealey's Litigation Report: Reinsurance,
No. 14 (Nov. 11, 2004).
- "Advertising
Injury Update 2003," Swiss Reinsurance seminar,
November 2003.
- "What's
Wrong With Ingram Micro?" November 22, 2000 issue
of Mealey's Emerging Insurance Disputes.
- "Be
Ready For Privacy Litigation," For the Defense,
(September 2000).
- "Advertising
in Cyberspace; The Changing Face of Injury," For
the Defense, (May 2000).
- "Internet
Torts and Cyberspace Insurance: New Issues for the E-conomy,"
268 Ill. Bar J. Vol. 88 (May 2000)
- "Cyberspace
Insurance Challenges," For the Defense (January
2000)
- "What
a Tangled Web: The New Legal Liabilities Created by
the Internet" 4 Mealey's Emerging Insurance
Disputes, No. 18 (Sept. 1999)
- "Untangling
The Tangled Web: Insurance Litigation in Cyberspace"
4 Mealey's Emerging Insurance Disputes, No. 18
(Sept. 1999)
- "Under
the Iceberg's Tip: Further Analysis of a Network Computing
Insurance Policy" 1 Mealey's Cyber Tech Litigation
Report, No. 7 (Sept. 1999)
- "Poisoning
the Deliberations: Jury Issues That Open After the Closing"
Illinois Bar Journal (Oct. 1998)
He
received a J.D. cum laude from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1994
where he received the ABA National Public Service Award. He received a B.S. with
high honors in Journalism from the University of Illinois in 1991. He
is admitted to the Illinois Bar, the Trial Bar of the United States District Court
for the Northern District of Illinois, and the Bars of the United States Court
of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.
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