Eric A. Fitzgerald, Attorney

Eric A. Fitzgerald is the Chair of Marshall Dennehey's Insurance Coverage/Bad Faith Practice Group. The Group consists of 22 attorneys exclusively providing general counsel and litigation of insurance coverage disputes. Members practice out of six different offices throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Florida.

Eric works with a wide variety of property/casualty lines, including: professional and miscellaneous errors & omissions; directors & officers; employer practices liability; law enforcement liability; commercial general liability; commercial property, excess and umbrella; specialty lines; boiler & machinery; inland marine; builders risk; owner controlled insurance programs, garage keepers; commercial auto; personal auto and homeowner's. He also handles workers compensation and employers liability policies and reinsurance.

As a coverage litigator, he has handled many different coverage issues, including: construction defect; intellectual property; notice of claim, relation back and prior/pending exclusions in claims made policies; environmental; civil rights; mold; product defect; liquor liability; additional insureds; policy reformation and application fraud cases.

Critical to his practice of serving the insurance industry, Eric obtained his Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation in 1999 and his Associate in Reinsurance (ARe) designation in 2000. He recently completed three years service as a National Governor and member of the Executive Committee of the CPCU Society and is currently a member of the Nominating Committee. He is also a member of the Claims Committee and is active in the Philadelphia and Northeastern Pennsylvania Chapters. He is also a member of the American Institute for CPCU Advisory Council.

He previously served as Second Vice President, Programs Chair and Publicity Chair for the CPCU Society Philadelphia Chapter. He remains active in the Philadelphia and Northeast Pennsylvania CPCU Chapters. He began his National CPCU Service as the Northeast Regional New Designee Representative and as the Editor of the Excess, Surplus and Specialty Lines Section Newsletter, The Specialist. He is also a CPCU course instructor.

Eric is also the Chair of Marshall Dennehey's Life, Health and Disability Practice Group. He is a member of the Defense Research Institute (DRI), and participates in the Life, Health and Disability Section. He is currently pursuing his Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) designation.

Prior to joining Marshall Dennehey, Eric practiced in Rochester, New York, where he provided statewide New York coverage counsel for several large national insurers. He began his career as a judicial clerk for the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department, where he participated in the drafting of many significant coverage decisions in New York State.

He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Rochester, New York, CPCU Chapter. He served as Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Monroe County Bar Association Foundation in 1999-2000 and was the Chair of the Monroe County Bar Association Young Lawyers Section in 1996.
 
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