William D. Riley, Director 

Captive Insurance, Insurance Coverage, Litigation
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Mr. Riley is a member of the Insurance Law team at Paul Frank + Collins, with a focus on captive insurance and insurance coverage.

Mr. Riley's captive insurance practice includes advising clients with respect to legal and regulatory issues associated with entity structures, governance, insurance programs, policy drafting and various insurance, reinsurance and alternative risk transactions.

Mr. Riley has been monitoring the fluctuating law and regulations of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act on behalf of Paul Frank + Collins' captive clients since its enactment in 2002. He is the author of "A Role for Captive Insurance Companies after TRIEA?," which appeared in the May 2007 issue of "For the Defense," and a white paper, entitled "TRIA and Captives: The Role of Captive Insurance in the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program," which was published in the Defense Research Institute's "TRIA Issues Compendium and Resource Database" in the spring of 2005.

In his insurance coverage practice, Mr. Riley counsels and represents traditional and captive insurance companies with respect to coverage matters and bad faith claims. He prepares coverage opinions and has litigated numerous declaratory judgment actions involving a wide range of commercial and personal insurance lines, including commercial general liability, all risk property, automobile liability, workers' compensation, uninsured motorist, homeowners, professional liability and excess policies. Mr. Riley also advises and represents captive insurance companies with respect to disputes with reinsurers.

EDUCATION:
University of Vermont, B.S. 1984
University of Michigan, Graduate School of Business Administration, M.B.A., 1986
Vermont Law School (cum laude), 1992
  Managing Editor of the Vermont Law Review 

BAR ADMISSIONS:
State of Vermont, 1993
U.S. District Court, District of Vermont, 1993
U.S. Tax Court, 2000
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 2004

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Defense Research Institute
American Bar Association
Vermont Bar Association
Leadership Champlain Alumni Association
Diplomat of the Trial Advocacy Program of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy

INDUSTRY ORGANIZATIONS:
Vermont Captive Association, Conference Committee, member and past chair
 
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:
Member of the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of the Lake Champlain Land Trust, which works to preserve significant island and shoreline areas in the Champlain Region.
Youth Hockey Coach, Burlington Amateur Hockey Association

PUBLICATIONS:
A Role for Captive Insurance Companies after TRIEA?, For the Defense, (May 2007).
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Punitive Damages in Commercial Transportation:  A State by State Summary, American Bar Association (2007).  Author of Vermont state summary.

TRIA and Captives: The Role of Captive Insurance in the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program. Included in the Defense Reserach Institute's White Paper compendium, The Future of Terrorism Risk Insurance, (2005)
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Federal Preemption of State and Local Rent Control Laws Through FIRREA: A Proposal to Protect Tenants and the RTC, 16 Vermont Law Review 969, (1992)