Hollingsworth LLP / Attorney Directory - MSM – Marc Mayerson, partner at Hollingsworth LLP, specializes in complex insurance coverage disputes; he leads a national practice representing policyholders. Expertise in environmental liabilities, asbestos bodily injury claims, product liability claims, medical device liability, and employment practices liability matters.

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1350 I St. N.W.
Washington, DC 20005
tel: (202)898-5800
fax:(202)682-1639

Marc S. Mayerson

Marc S. Mayerson

Direct Dial:
(202) 898-5877
Email:
mmayerson@hollingsworthllp.com

Practice Area(s):
Insurance

Education:
University of Michigan (A.B., 1983,
with highest distinction
Phi Beta Kappa)

Harvard Law School
(J.D., 1986,
magna cum laude)

Mr. Mayerson specializes in complex insurance-coverage disputes including litigation, settlement and advice, and he leads Hollingsworth LLP’s national practice representing policyholders. He has appeared as counsel in actions seeking insurance reconvery for environmental liabilities, asbestos bodily injury claims, product-liability claims, medical-device liability, fidelity losses, errors-and-omissions liability, and employment-practices liability matters. He has also been involved in coverage disputes involving genetically modified crops, adulterated food, intellectual-property violations, silica-related liabilities, legal malpractice, and several innovative class-action settlements of products claims.

Mr. Mayerson regularly advises clients on the full range of coverage issues and policies, including director’s and officer’s coverage, employment practices claims, first-party property claims, fiduciary and ERISA liability, professional liability, and general liability. He has assisted companies in structuring their insurance programs and in ensuring that policy wording matches policy intent. He represents a number of trade associations and nonprofits on coverage matters. He has worked with companies concerning captive reinsurance and related alternative-risk mechanisms, retrospective premium disputes, insurer insolvency, and liability and insurance issues in corporate acquisitions and divestitures and in corporate reorganizations under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code, including Section 524(g) trusts.

A frequent author and speaker on insurance topics in symposia, Mr. Mayerson is the co-editor of the New Appleman Insurance Law Practice Guide (2008), the leading practice guide in the field, and he has published widely on insurance topics including bad faith. Mr. Mayerson has also testified before Congress on liability and insurance issues concerning charitable and non-profit organizations. He has helped train professional mediators in complex insurance-coverage dispute resolution, and is a founding member of the American Arbitration Association's Coverage Neutral Evaluation Panel and is a qualified AAA arbitrator.

Mr. Mayerson was recently reappointed as Vice-Chair of the Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association's Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section ("TIPS"). He is also a member of the TIPS Federal Involvement in Insurance Regulation Modernization Task Force, which is participating in Congress's analysis of proposals for national regulation of the insurance business. Mr. Mayerson also serves as a member on the TIPS Task Force on Insurance Coverage Issues in Disasters, which works with Congress and the ABA concerning the availability of insurance in connection with hurricanes and other mass-loss events. He is listed in Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Insurance & Reinsurance Lawyers and in Chambers USA 2010 America's Leading Business Lawyers, in The Best Lawyers in America 2010 (Insurance Law), and in SuperLawyers. Mr. Mayerson was identified as one of the ten leading lawyers in insurance law by the Legal Times (Feb. 26, 2007). Mr. Mayerson teaches insurance law as an adjunct professor at The George Washington University Law School.

Mr. Mayerson is the partner responsible for the Firm’s use and deployment of computer-based technology, a topic about which he has written and lectured at legal-technology symposia. In addition to dealing with issues of electronic discovery in his own cases, Mr. Mayerson provides assistance to others within the Firm regarding e-discovery requirements, and counsels clients on information management, records retention, and litigation readiness concerning corporate documents, information storage, and document systems. He provides guidance to our Litigation Support Group on these issues. He also meets with vendors and technology developers to help facilitate implementations and products that will meet the recorded-information-management needs of clients.

Mr. Mayerson presently serves as the twice-elected President of Congregation Har Shalom, a large conservative Jewish synogague in Potomac, Maryland.

Mr. Mayerson was a member of the Board of Editors of the Harvard Law Review. After graduating from Harvard, Mr. Mayerson served as judicial clerk to the Honorable Stephen R. Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.