Joseph P. Postel provides a legal perspective on additional
insured issues for IRMI.com.
Mr. Postel is a partner with Lindsay, Pickett & Postel, LLC, with
offices in Chicago and Waukegan, Illinois, where he chairs the firm’s
statewide insurance coverage litigation and appellate practice. He has more
than 30 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.