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Scott Stirling serves as lead litigator in complex cases representing defendants and insurers in both trial and appellate courts throughout the nation. He defends and monitors high-exposure and difficult lawsuits, especially those involving complex and catastrophic injuries or damages, wrongful death, product liability, and class action allegations in areas including aviation and transportation, product design and manufacturing, construction accidents, premises liability, governmental liability, multinational claims, and other tort, contract, and statutory claims. Excess insurers utilize Scott to monitor trials and pre-trial proceedings in high-stakes cases to continuously evaluate exposure, communicate with primary insurers and defense counsel, associate in as defense counsel, participate in mediations, and assume settlement negotiations as appropriate.
Scott is also an experienced insurance lawyer. Scott litigates insurance coverage, bad faith, insurance fraud and misrepresentation, and policy voidance/rescission cases for both domestic insurers and insurance syndicates within the Lloyd’s of London insurance market. Scott’s comprehensive understanding of the London insurance market and claims apparatuses of Lloyd’s syndicates enables him to efficiently advocate for Underwriters and their insureds in courts throughout the United States. Outside of litigation, he serves as coverage counsel for insurers, providing insurers coverage opinions on claims under both first-party and third-party policies. Insurers frequently retain him to advise on claim investigations and conduct examinations under oath of insureds, especially as to valuable article, fire, and trucking losses involving potential insurance fraud and Special Investigation Unit investigations. He also defends insurance agents, brokers, coverholders, and wholesale brokers in professional liability and other insurance suits.
In addition to a robust local practice in Chicago and throughout Illinois, Scott is also licensed and routinely litigates in Arkansas state and federal courts, and often secures temporary Pro hac vice admission to argue and appear in state and federal courts nationwide to aggressively protect and pursue his clients’ positions.
Scott continues to accumulate litigation and economic victories for his clients in trial courts, appellate courts, and outside of litigation. He argued and briefed appeals in the United States Courts of Appeals for the Third, Fifth, Seventh, and Eighth Circuits, as well as various state appellate courts.
A sampling of successes for his clients include: