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Geoff Fallon


Current Position:   Senior Vice President, Risk Audit. LLC
 Provide expert witness services and testimony in connection with insurance claims disputes
Educational Activities:   National Risk and Insurance Management Society — lead two-day workshops nationwide on D&O liability and insurance

Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, MBA Program — guest lecturer on Professional Liability and General Liability Insurance
Previous Positions:   Managing Director, Marsh Inc.
 Senior leader and national resource in the Financial and Professional (FINPRO) Practice. Worked with numerous large and diverse clients including several claim disputes.

National Director of Training for FINPRO

Partner in the law firm of Arter & Hadden

Member of the D&O Practice group where my practice was representing insurance companies in claims made against directors and officers

Claims Counsel, Chubb & Son Inc.

Senior claims attorney for directors and officers liability claims

Corporate Secretary, Quanex Corporation

In–house counsel for a NYSE-listed specialty steel company
Education:  

University of Houston Law School (L.L.M., Taxation)

New York University Law School (L.L.M., Corp. Law)

St. Louis University Law School (J.D., Law Review)

Boston College (A.B.)
 


Represented clients in connection with the following noteworthy D&O claims:

  • Centocor
  • Keene
  • Chrysler
  • Marriott
  • Columbia Gas
  • Media Vision
  • Copley Pharmaceutical
  • Nordstrom
  • C.R. Bard
  • Peoples Jewelers
  • General Dynamics
  • Prudential Securities
  • General Electric
  • Salomon Brothers
  • Hercules
  • Storage Technology
  • Humana
  • U.S. West
  • Immunex
  • Westinghouse



Geoffrey D. Fallon – Publications


Third Party Funding of Lawsuits Now Permissible in Certain Countries, FINPRO Insights, Summer 2008

Largest Ever Cyber Settlement Announced, FINPRO Focus, March 2008

Outside Directors Personally Liable for $41.5 Million, FINPRO Focus, July 2007

New Source of Nonindemnifiable Claims Against D&O’s, The John Liner Review, Spring 2006

New Claim in Shareholder Class Actions – Backdating and Timing of Stock Option Grants, FINPRO Focus, May 2006

When the Company Does Not Pay, President & CEO,  March 2005

Tag-Along Fiduciary Claims to Shareholder Class Actions, The John Liner Review, Fall 2004

Charity Care Class Actions Against Not-for-Profit Hospitals, FINPRO FOCUS, October 2004

Directors and Officers Coverage Issues in Bankruptcy, The John Liner Review, Summer 2002

Preventing D&O Liability for an Enron-Like Disaster, Directorship, May 2002

Using Creative Insurance Solutions to Achieve More Profitable M&A Transactions, Risk Funding & Self-Insurance, a publication of The National Underwriter, September 2001

SEC Regulation FD (Fair Disclosure) and Disclosures to Insurance Underwriters, Risk Financing, a publication of the International Risk Management Association, April 2001

Cyber Losses and Cyber Coverage, The Risk Report of the International Risk Management Institute, January 2000.

Insuring Representations and Warranties in an Agreement to Sell a Business, Manufacturing Risk Management and Insurance Newsletter, July 1999.

Insuring Tax Liabilities, The Tax Adviser (published by the American Institute of CPA's), May 1999.Corporate Web Sites:  One Stop Shopping for Shareholder Class Actions, Director's Monthly, August 1997.

Directors' Duties and Liabilities for Year 2000 Computer Problems, Directorship, April 1997.No Delaware Two-Step for Pennsylvania Corporations, Director's Monthly, September 1997.

Cleveland Adopts New Ordinance Providing Jail Time and Fines for Employment Discrimination, The Daily Reporter, February 20, 1997.

Wither Securities Litigation Reform Act, D&O Liability Litigation News, January 1996.

Directors and Officers Liability:  Risk Minimization for Banks, BankRisk, November/December 1993.

Proposed New York Law for Derivative Suits, D&O Liability Litigation News, February 1994.

Full Siege Ahead:  Despite Criticism (and the Threat of Legislation) Lawyers are Still Chasing Shareholders to Bring Class Action Suits, (Sidebar Comment) Across the Board, November/ December 1994.

Directors and Officers of Public Companies, Duties and Liability:  What the CPA Needs to Know, Accounting Today, March 1994.

Yesses and No's for D&O's:  Practical Advice for Limiting your Liability if you Occupy a Corporation's Director or Officer Chair, Oil and Gas Investor, February 1994.

Preventing Shareholder Lawsuits, Directorship, September 1993.

Corporate Indemnification of Directors & Officers, The D&O Book, Summer 1994.

Liability for Lawyers, SEC Rule 10b-5, St. Louis University Law Journal, Spring 1973.