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Alan R. Miller

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Alan R. Miller

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armiller@rkmc.com


Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P.
25th Floor, Prudential Tower
800 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02199

Phone: 617.267.2300
Toll Free: 1.800.553.9910
Fax: 617.267.8288

Practice Groups

Experience

  • Has more than 35 years of litigation experience including professional liability, liability defense, life insurance coverage, arson and fraud, subrogation, and arbitration in reinsurance disputes.

Other Experience

  • Former Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Illinois in the prosecution of pollution matters.
  • Former Hearing Officer for the Pollution Control Board of the State of Illinois.
  • Founded Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. Boston office.
  • Adjunct Professor at New England School of law, teaching insurance law.

Selected Results*

Altru Health System and Altru Specialty Services, Inc. v. American Protection Insurance Company et al., 238 F.3d 961 (8th Cir. 2001)

Terra Industries, Inc. v. Commonwealth Insurance Company of America , 981 F. Supp. 581 (N.D. Iowa 1997)

Beals v. Superior Welding Company, 653 N.E.2d 430 (Ill. App. 1995)

Insurance Company of North America v. Protection Mutual Insurance Company, 939 F. Supp. 79 (D. Mass. 1996)

Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Insurance Company, 604 N.Y.S.2d 952 (App. Div. 1993)

University of Cincinnati v. Arkwright Mutual Insurance Company, 51 F.3d 1277 (6th Cir. 1995)

Occidental Chemical Corporation v. American Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance Company, 820 F. Supp. 74 (S.D.N.Y. 1993), aff’d. 7 F.3d 221 (1993)

Memberships

  • American Bar Association (Past Chair of the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS), McKay Law Professor Award Committee, Past Chair of the Property Insurance Law Committee in the TIPS, and Past Chair of the TIPS Task Force on Legal Education, Vice-chair of Intellectual Property Committee in TIPS
  • Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel (Insurance Coverage and Property Insurance Committees)
  • Insurance Coverage Committee in DRI
  • Massachusetts Bar Association
  • Chicago Bar Association
  • New York Bar Association

Bar Admissions

  • Illinois
  • Massachusetts
  • Minnesota
  • New York
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
  • U.S. Supreme Court

Education

  • Harvard Law School, Masters in Law degree
  • DePaul University, J.D., summa cum laude (1964)

Books and Articles

  • Business Interruption Insurance Current Issues
    PLI (February 2003)
  • First Party Insurance-Requirement of Physical Damage
    PLI (February 2003)
  • What Constitutes a Collapse under a Property Insurance Policy
    (Winter 2000)
  • Business Interruption and Extra Expense in Year 2000 Claims
    ABA Tort and Insurance Practice Section (1999)
  • Business Interruption: Contingent and Recipient Beneficiaries
    Defense Research Institute (1998)
  • What Constitutes a Collapse under a Property Insurance Policy?
    ABA Tort and Insurance Practice Section (1998)
  • Fortuitous Physical Loss or Damages to Insured Property- Is There Coverage for Claims of Damages to Land and Water and Diminution in Value?
    ABA Tort and Insurance Practice Section Monograph (1997)
  • Business Interruption Insurance Baffles Claimants
    National Law Journal (August 26, 1996)
  • Business Interruption Losses in the Context of a Catastrophe: Calculation of the Period of Restoration and Projected Business Income, "Property Insurance Issues and Catastrophe Losses
    ABA Tort and Insurance Practice Section Monograph (1996)
  • Catastrophic Loss Business Interruption Issue: Idle Periods
    Claim Magazine (1993)
  • Lie Once and Lose
    American Bar Association, The Brief (1993)
  • The Impact of the Good Faith Requirement Upon the Parties
    American Bar Association 26 Tort and Insurance Law Journal 602 (1991)
  • Insuring Real Property
    (Contributing author with Matthew Bender) (1989)
  • Calculation of Indemnity Period
    Federation of Insurance and Corporate Counsel, Quarterly (1987)
  • What Constitutes Property Damages Under an All-Risk Insurance Policy
    ABA Tort and Insurance Practice Section Monograph (1986)
  • Overview of the Problem of Bad Faith and Punitive Damages
    The Forum (1979)
  • Arson: The Hidden Crime
    Journal of Proceedings of Conference of Insurance Legislators
  • Types of Property Insured
    Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (1978)

Selected Speeches

    • American Bar Association Property Insurance Seminar
      New York (November 12, 2002)
    • TIPS Y2K Seminar
      (September, October 1999)
    • Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. Intellectual Properties
      (Waltham, MA, May 1999)
    • Mealey's Bad Faith Seminar
      Boston, MA (May 1999)
    • Business Interruption Seminar
      Chicago, IL (October 1997, October 1998)
    • Property Loss Research Bureau
      (1992; April 1993; March 1994; October 1995; April 1996; October 1996; April 1997; April 1998; October 1998)
    • Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. Intellectual Properties
      New York, NY (June 1998)
    • TIPS
      Chicago, IL (June 1998)
    • TIPS
      New York, NY (December 1996)
    • Fraud (two topics)
      Boston, MA (September 1992); (March 1994); (December 1994); New York, NY and Boston, MA (October 1996)
    • Loss Executives Association Mock Trial
      (Fall 1986); (June 1991); Tampa, Florida (February 1993); Portland, ME (June 1996)
    • TIPS
      (Monterey, CA, April 1996)
    • TIPS
      Orlando, FL (March 1995)
    • Strategic Research Institute
      (January 1995)
    • TIPS
      (February 1994)
    • Property Claims Services, a division of American Insurance Services Group
      Framingham, MA (February 1994)
    • Coverage for Employment-Related Claims
       New York, NY (December 1993)
    • Seminar on Catastrophic Business Interruption Losses
       New York, NY (November 1993)
    • Federation of Insurance and Corporate Counsel
      Scottsdale, AZ (February 1993)
    • Infoline Seminar on Litigation Management
      New York, NY (June 1992)
    • Defense Research  Institute Bad Faith Seminar
      Boston (1987); New York, NY (December 1991)
    • Institute for Continuing Legal Education on Property Insurance
    • Western Loss Association
      (October 1991)
    • Loss Managers' Conference of the Property Loss Research Bureau
      Annually during the past twenty years
    • TIPS Spring Meeting
      Cancun, Mexico on Bad Faith (April 1990)
    • Property Insurance Mid-Year Meeting on Pollution Claims
      Pebble Beach, CA (March 1990)
    • Moderator National Forum for Loss Professionals
      Princeton, NJ (November 1989)
    • Tort and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) Property Insurance Committee seminar on pollution issues, Program Chair
      (March 1989)
    • Executive Enterprises Seminars on Reinsurance
      New York, NY (September  26, 1988); (February 20, 1989)
    • Boston Claims Manager Association
      Boston, MA (1988)
    • National Association of Independent Insurance Adjusters
      (May 1988)
    • Oregon Association of Defense Counsel
      Portland, OR (1987)
    • Property Insurance Committee Annual Meeting, Program Chair
      San Francisco, CA (August 1987)
    • Property Insurance Committee Mid-Year Meeting on the All-Risk Policy, Speaker and Program Chairman
       (March 1986)
    • Faculty member National Insurance Forum
      (1985-present) and other presentations to various insurance-oriented audiences and/or public servants 
    • PESI on insurance issues
      (Hawaii, 1984)
    • Property Insurance Committee Mid-Year meeting on Business Interruption
      (March 1984)
    • Wisconsin Fire Loss Association; CPCU Seminar on Liability Insurance Issues
      (March 1983)
    • Professional Education Seminar
      Hartford, CT and Boston, MA (1983)
    • ALI-ABA Seminar on Arson
      Pebble Beach, CA (1982)
    • American Bar Association Property Insurance Committee Annual Meeting on Bad Faith
      Dallas, TX (1979)
    • Conference of Insurance Legislators
      Las Vegas, NV (1977)

    * Past results are reported to provide the reader with an indication of the type of litigation in which we practice and do not and should not be construed to create an expectation of result in any other case as all cases are dependent upon their own unique fact situation and applicable law.

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