Neal Moglin is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP. Mr. Moglin is an experienced litigator who regularly represents ceding companies and reinsurers in arbitrations involving life/accident & health and property/casualty contracts. He has also represented insurers and reinsurers in federal and state courts in New York, Illinois, Texas, Florida and other jurisdictions. He is vice chair of the firm’s Insurance & Reinsurance Litigation Practice and a member of the Insurance & Reinsurance Industry Team.
Mr. Moglin’s representative cases have involved aviation bodily injury carve out and workers’ compensation carve out contracts; fronting and pool liability issues; MGA and pool manager disputes; environmental and asbestos losses; medical stop loss contracts; spiral claims; World Trade Center losses; finite reinsurance and disputes involving traditional and non-traditional life reinsurance products.
Additionally, Mr. Moglin regularly advises clients on regulatory compliance and risk management issues and assists them in the development of new products and the acquisition and disposition of books of business.
Mr. Moglin is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, where he received his bachelor’s degree in 1985 and his J.D. degree (with honors) in 1988. He was a member of the Vanderbilt University Law Review.
Mr. Moglin is a former co-chair of the Mealeys Reinsurance Summit (2005-2007) and the Annual Insurance Insolvency & Reinsurance Roundtable (2008 to 2010). He has also spoken at a variety of other industry meetings and events, including the 2009 ARIAS Fall Conference. Reinsurance articles published by Mr. Moglin include "And Now for Something Completely different: What your English Colleagues Already Know about Mediating Reinsurance Disputes," (ARIAS Quarterly, 2007) and "Achieving Certainty in an International Marketplace," (Journal of Reinsurance, 2007).
Mr. Moglin is a member of both the Illinois Bar and the Trial Bar of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He is currently admitted to practice in the state courts of Illinois, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Mr. Moglin has been recognized as one of America’s Leading Lawyers for Business by Chambers USA (2008-present); as a Leading Lawyer for Insurance and Reinsurance by Legal 500 US (2008-present) and as a Leading Lawyer by Euromoney Institutional Investor’s Insurance and Reinsurance Expert Guide. He has also been selected for inclusion in the Illinois Super Lawyers® list for his reinsurance litigation work (2005, 2009).*
*The Illinois Supreme Court does not recognize certifications of specialties in the practice of law and no award or recognition is a requirement to practice law in Illinois.