Joseph Postel
Partner, Lindsay, Rappaport & Postel, LLC
Contact Info
Lindsay, Rappaport & Postel, LLC
10 S. LaSalle St., Ste. 1301
Chicago, IL 60603
Phone: (312) 629-0208, ext. 14
Fax: (312) 629-1404
www.lrplawfirm.com
Background
Joseph P. Postel provides a legal perspective on additional
insured issues for IRMI.com.
Mr. Postel is a partner with Lindsay, Rappaport & Postel, LLC, with
offices in Chicago and Waukegan, Illinois, where he chairs the firm’s statewide
insurance coverage litigation and appellate practice. He has 27 years of
experience as a lawyer serving the insurance industry in both defense and
coverage litigation and appeals. Mr. Postel has been lead counsel in more than
60 appeals and has won more than two-thirds of them for his clients. He has
been a frequent speaker and author on insurance coverage topics for the
American Bar Association, Defense Research Institute, Illinois Association of
Defense Trial Counsel, and International Risk Management Institute, having
served on the editorial board of the CGL Reporter
from 2001 to 2005. He has authored articles on additional insured coverage for
Construction Risk Management, CGL Reporter,
and Illinois Defense Counsel Quarterly
and has written papers and spoken on additional insured issues and construction
defect coverage at numerous conferences for ABA/TIPS/ICLC, DRI, IRMI's
Construction Risk Conference, the Defense Research Institute, the Illinois
Association of Defense Trial Counsel, and the American Corporate Counsel
Association.
Mr. Postel is admitted to practice before the Illinois Supreme Court, the
U.S. District Court for the Northern, Central, and Southern Districts of
Illinois, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He is a 1979
graduate of Willamette University College of Liberal Arts in Salem, Oregon, and
a 1982 graduate of Willamette University College of Law.