Marc S. Mayerson

Marc Mayerson is a lawyer, arbitrator, mediator, law professor, and expert with a special focus on complex property-casualty insurance law and regulation. He is the principal of The Mayerson Firm PLLC, in Washington, DC.

In his legal practice, Mr. Mayerson specializes in complex insurance-coverage disputes and advice on behalf of policyholders, such as businesses, nonprofits, directors, executives, fiduciaries, and individuals. He has appeared as lead counsel in many jurisdictions across the country (both at the trial and appellate levels) and has participated in arbitrations in the US and abroad. Some of the subject matters for which he has pursued insurance recovery include asbestos liabilities, environmental liabilities and clean-up costs, toxic torts, product liability, medical-device liabilities, class actions, securities claim, legal malpractice, criminal and Congressional investigations, ERISA fiduciary claims, intellectual property claims, antitrust and business torts, contaminated food, genetically modified crops, cyber liability, employment practices including discrimination, fidelity and employee-dishonesty claims, first-party property, business-interruption and time-element coverages, and natural disasters including storms, hurricanes, flood, and tornadoes. Mr. Mayerson also regularly advises clients, often including boards of directors, regarding the wording of proposed insurance.

Mr. Mayerson regularly speaks on cutting-edge insurance topics. His publications address: insurance bad faith; insurance for food contamination including genetically modified organisms; insurance recovery for environmental liability and related toxic torts; case management and trial of complex insurance litigation; insurers’ duty to defend; policyholders’ obligation to provide notice; and other issues. He is co-editor of the New Appleman Insurance Practice Guide (Lexis).

His peer recognitions include selections in ChambersUSA America's Leading Business Lawyers, the BestLawyers in America, SuperLawyers, and in Experts' Guide to the World's Leading Insurance & Reinsurance Lawyers. Mr. Mayerson was profiled as one of the ten "Leading Lawyers" in Insurance by LegalTimes (Feb. 26, 2007).

Marc Mayerson attended Harvard Law School (magna cum laude 1986), where he was a member of the Harvard Law Review and a Teaching Fellow at Harvard College. Mr. Mayerson obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan (1983), with Highest Distinction, High Honors, and Phi Beta Kappa. After law school, he served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Stephen R. Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He entered private practice in 1987.