Gail M. Goering

Gail Goering is a partner and reinsurance lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP where her practice is primarily devoted to advising clients in reinsurance disputes, both in the U.S. and abroad. These matters have involved issues arising from both life/health and property/casualty reinsurance contracts. She is co-chair of the firm’s Insurance & Reinsurance Industry Team and a member of the Insurance & Reinsurance Litigation Practice.

Ms. Goering regularly assists clients in developing traditional reinsurance products and in creating unique risk transfer structures. She also has worked extensively with several insurer and reinsurer clients to develop actuarial models for analyzing and estimating claims exposures.

Ms. Goering has particular knowledge with respect to issues arising out of the insolvencies of life/health and property/casualty insurance companies. She has experience advising on and litigating complex issues arising in international insurer insolvencies. She also has advised clients and litigated disputes involving issues such as the scope of the right of offset, the recoverability of estimated claims, the priority afforded to particular types of creditor claims and the scope of the right to arbitration in insolvency proceedings.

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Areas of Practice 1) Class Action and Other Insurance Litigation, 2) Insurance & Reinsurance Litigation, 3) Insurance Coverage Counseling & Litigation and 4) Reinsurance Dispute Resolution
Law School Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Education Bethel College (B.A. and B.S., summa cum laude,1987).
Bar Member / Association State Bar Of Illinois , State Bar Of New York
Most recent firm Foley & Lardner LLP
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