Background
Rich Scislowski is editor of Pollution Coverage Issues, a co-author of Commercial Liability Insurance, and a contributing
author for a number of other IRMI publications. He is a Chartered Property and
Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) and holds the Construction Risk and Insurance
Specialist (CRIS) designation.
Mr. Scislowski contributes articles on liability
insurance, environmental
issues, courts
and coverage, and
risk and insurance history to the Expert Commentary section of
IRMI.com.
Prior to joining IRMI in March 2005, Mr. Scislowski was a coverage lawyer
with Gallagher, Sharp, Fulton & Norman in Cleveland, a large insurance
defense and coverage firm, where he specialized in litigating commercial and
personal lines coverage disputes. Before that, he was with a litigation
boutique firm where he regularly appeared in court to defend a wide variety of
complex civil matters, including business torts, construction defects,
workplace injuries, medical and legal malpractice, and insurance coverage. Mr.
Scislowski began his career as a judicial clerk for the Ohio Court of Appeals
for the 11th District, helping write over 250 opinions, including several
construing insurance policy language.
Mr. Scislowski graduated magna cum laude
from the University of Akron School of Law, serving as articles editor for the
Akron Law Review.
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