Background
John Black Jr. contributes articles on professional,
D&O, and fiduciary liability for IRMI.com.
Mr. Black is an executive principal at Boundas, Skarzynski, Walsh &
Black, LLC, where his practice focuses on liability and insurance issues
involving directors and officers, other professionals, and information security
and privacy. He has represented major insurers in national programs of
liability insurance for directors and officers of publicly traded, privately
held corporations and not-for-profit corporations. He assists insurers in
drafting and interpreting insurance policies for directors and officers
(D&O) liability, privacy, network security, technology and media exposures,
insurance brokers and company errors and omissions (E&O) and D&O,
mutual fund and investment adviser E&O and D&O, employment practices
liability, and other professional liability, and serves as coverage counsel for
claims under such policies. He also has counseled clients on issues of D&O
liability, data security, and privacy.
Mr. Black speaks and publishes frequently on liability and insurance issues.
He has conducted in-house training sessions for insurers on insurance
underwriting, regulatory, and liability issues and has been invited to speak
before the NAII, the Chicago Bar Association, the Association of Lloyd’s
Brokers, and other organizations on D&O liability and insurance and privacy
liability and insurance. Most recently, he coauthored a chapter on
"Information Security" in the recently released book, Internet Law for the Business Lawyer (2nd edition,
2012), published by the Cyberspace Law Committee of the ABA Business Law
Section, and appeared in December 2012 as a panelist on an ABA webinar entitled
"Insuring for Data Security Threats: Everything a Business Lawyer Wants to
Know But Is Afraid to Ask."
Mr. Black is a member of the American Bar Association, participating in the
Tort and Insurance Practice Section, the Science and Technology Law Section,
and the Business Law Section (where he is active in the Cyberspace Law
Committee). He is a member of the Midwest Chapter Steering Committee of the
Professional Liability Underwriting Society and a past chairman of the
Committee. He also is a member of the International Association of Privacy
Professionals and holds a CIPP/US certification.
Mr. Black received his J.D. degree in 1983 from the University of Illinois
at Champaign/Urbana, where he was on the Moot Court Board of Editors and the
Law Review.