Richard G. Agin

Partner

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• Chicago Office

Richard G. Agin is a partner in the Chicago office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where he is a member of the Litigation group. He concentrates his practice in insurance, reinsurance, financial services, and securities litigation.

Mr. Agin has represented insurers, reinsurers, sureties, investment banks, and broker-dealers in state and federal courts across the United States, before international arbitration tribunals, and as US counsel in UK court proceedings.

He has a wide range of experience litigating commercial contract disputes, insurance and reinsurance coverage actions, policy avoidance and rectification/reformation disputes, bad-faith claims handling disputes, and private placement securities fraud claims.

Representative Matters

• Redacted v. Redacted, Private Arbitration, London (Reinsurance dispute over cancellation of catastrophe excess of loss reinsurance treaty)
• Abbott Laboratories, Inc v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s, London, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois (Insurance coverage litigation involving pharmaceutical product-recall and business interruption losses)
• XL Insurance ( Bermuda) Ltd. v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, et al., California State Court (Insurance product – film finance dispute)
• Redacted v. Redacted, Private Arbitration, London (Insurance product – film finance dispute)
• The Society of Lloyd’s v. XL Re Ltd. and Others, Private Arbitration, London (excess of loss financial indemnity contract dispute)
• Zurich Ins. Co., et al v. Ace Insurance Ltd., Texas State Courts and Texas Court of Appeals (decision reported at 59 S.W. 3d 424 (2001)) (facultative reinsurance contract dispute, including international jurisdictional and conflict of law issues)
• Ace Insurance Ltd. v. Zurich Ins. Co., et al., High Court of Justice, Queens Bench, London (facultative reinsurance dispute over Saudi Arabian oil well blow-out loss)
• Redacted v. Redacted, Private Arbitration, Bermuda (facultative reinsurance dispute over race discrimination loss)

News

• Steptoe & Johnson LLP Opens Chicago Office

Professional Affiliations

• American Bar Association