Wollan, Eugene
Eugene Wollan, a graduate of Harvard College (cum laude) and Harvard Law School, has concentrated for forty-eight years on property and casualty insurance claims litigation, commercial insurance litigation, and reinsurance controversies. Mr. Wollan has served as an expert witness and as umpire and arbitrator in insurance and reinsurance disputes, and has testified in Great Britain as an expert witness on New York insurance law. He is certified as an arbitrator and umpire by ARIAS-US.
In a peer survey, Mr. Wollan was named as one of the five leading insurance / reinsurance lawyers in the US and one of the leading twenty in the world, and he was described as "dean of the [reinsurance] bar" and "one of the best insurance arbitrators in the business." He is listed in Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who Legal, and is AV Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
Mr. Wollan is the author of the treatise Handbook of Reinsurance Law (Aspen Law & Business, 2002). He is co-author with Arthur N. Brook of the chapter on Property Insurance contained in Business Insurance Law and Practice Guide (Matthew Bender, 1989) and with Lawrence S. Greengrass of the chapter on Arbitration of Reinsurance Cases contained in Prosecuting and Defending Insurance Claims (John Wiley & Sons, 1989). He and Jeffrey S. Weinstein prepared the 2010 revisions to the chapter on Property Insurance in Appleman's New York Insurance Law. Mr. Wollan's articles have appeared in Best's Review , ReActions , Reinsurance , Insurance and Reinsurance Law International , International Insurance Monitor , Insurance Counsel Journal , The United States Reinsurance Report , and Insurance Advocate. He is a contributing editor on insurance law of The John Liner Review, and a member of the Editorial Board of Risk Management Reports.
In addition to his role as Senior Counsel at MCWG, Mr. Wollan is a Vice-President of AmTrust International Insurance, Ltd. He is a member of the Property Insurance Committee and the Reinsurance Committee of the International Association of Defense Counsel, and of the International Society of Barristers, L'Association Internationale de Droit des Assurances (AIDA), the Defense Research Institute, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the New York County Lawyers' Association. He has served as Vice President, Executive Committee member, and member of the Board of Directors of AIDA Reinsurance and Insurance Arbitration Society (ARIAS-US), is the Editor of the ARIAS Quarterly publication, and serves on the ARIAS Long Range Planning Committee. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Copenhagen Reinsurance Company. He has lectured at seminars and meetings sponsored by, among others, the Defense Research Institute, Tort and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association, ARIAS-US, Mealey's, Euroforum, Loss Executives Association, Insurance Information Institute, Inland Marine Underwriters Association, Executive Enterprises, Inc., New South Wales Reinsurance Discussion Group, Australian Reinsurance Rendezvous, and Australian Insurance Law Association.
Mr. Wollan is a Colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Army Reserve (Retired), and is an honor graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.
