John Zulkey

Insurance Coverage Professional

Role
AVP, Professional Liability Complex Claims at Westfield Specialty Insurance
Location
Chicago, IL, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About John Zulkey

Before going in-house to handle cyber and life agent broker/deal claims, Jack spent a decade litigating insurance coverage. He worked on a wide range of issues, including coverage for Tech and Cyber, construction defects, asbestos, product liability, life sciences sexual abuse, and pollution, but has a specialty in professional liability insurance coverage. Jack drafted the chapters for Illinois and Missouri in the Defense Research Institute\'s 50-state survey of the law of professional liability coverage. His scholarship on Related Acts Provisions has been published in the Tort Trials & Insurance Practice Law Journal, the Valparaiso Law Review, the DRI\'s For The Defense, and by the International Association of Claim Professionals.John is actively involved in the Chicago Bar Association, serving as an investigator on the Judicial Evaluation Committee and as Chair for the Civil Practice Committee. He is a 4-year veteran of the U.S. Army.

Experience

  1. AVP, Professional Liability Complex Claims

    Westfield Specialty Insurance

    Sep 2022 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

    Manage and help build the department handling claims arising from media, and miscellaneous E&O.Additionally, helped build and managed the department handling tech and cyber claims until such time as an AVP for Cyber Claims could be retained.

Education

  • Boston University

    Master of Science, Criminal Justice

    2004 — 2006

  • University of Illinois College of Law

    J.D., Law

    2007 — 2010

  • Davidson College

    Bachelor of Arts, History

    1999 — 2003

Skills

  • Arbitration
  • Legal Writing
  • Litigation
  • Appeals
  • Insurance Law
  • Professional Liability
  • Civil Litigation
  • Insurance
  • Torts
  • Legal Research

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