During the brutal winter of 1620-21, Miles Standish, the English military officer hired by the Pilgrims as military advisor for Plymouth Colony and one of the Mayflower passengers, played a leading role in the administration and defense of the colony. His wife, Rose, suffered from sickness and fever throughout most of the winter, and when…
The 2019 National Association of Subrogation Professionals (NASP) Annual Conference will be held October 27 – 30 in Washington, D.C. Its lineup of speakers and topics is very good, as usual. MWL will have many experienced subrogation lawyers there who will be moderating, presenting, or speaking at the conference. Ryan Woody will be co-presenting a…
Matthiesen, Wickert & Lehrer, S.C. (“MWL”) is pleased to welcome attorney Catherine Dowie to the firm as a litigation associate in our Wisconsin office. Catherine is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts and Vermont and her practice focuses on national insurance subrogation with an emphasis on ERISA and health insurance subrogation. Catherine has a vast…
Matthiesen, Wickert & Lehrer, S.C. (“MWL”) is very proud to announce that Jake Simon has joined our insurance litigation team as a litigating subrogation associate in our Hartford, Wisconsin office. Jake is a Badger and received his undergraduate degree at Temple University, majoring in Risk Management and Insurance. He received his law degree from the…
Matthiesen, Wickert & Lehrer, S.C. (“MWL”) is pleased to welcome seasoned trial attorney Mark A. Solomon to the firm as a partner. Mark brings with him a wealth of litigation and insurance claims experience to MWL’s Austin, Texas office. After nearly ten years of litigating with two of Houston’s premier litigation firms, Mark joined Farmers…
We would like to introduce and welcome you to join our new LinkedIn group! It is called Subrogation Support Network. It is a community managed by Matthiesen, Wickert & Lehrer, S.C., that offers insurance professionals a place to interact, discuss subrogation insurance-related topics and issues, ask subrogation questions, and keep abreast of new developments and/or…
Matthiesen, Wickert & Lehrer, S.C. is proud to announce the addition of two attorneys and two paralegals. We appreciate the continued trust and confidence our clients have shown in our abilities to maximize their subrogation recoveries anywhere within North America. The increased recovery business entrusted to us has necessitated the addition of several experienced legal…
Gary Wickert’s was interviewed by the Chicago Tribune for an article published on May 14, 2014 entitled “Insurers Sue Chicago-Area Towns In A Bid To Get Flood Money Saying Municipalities Should’ve Done More Against Flooding”. Read the full article HERE.
Gary Wickert’s article entitled “Gathering Pebbles: Subrogation’s Burden of Proof” was published in the American Educational Institute’s (AEI) Spring 2014 Claims Law Update, which can be viewed HERE. Gary will be speaking at this year’s SCLA Claims Education Conference in San Antonio, presenting on Recognizing Subrogation and Third-Party Liability. This conference is presented by AEI…
Gary Wickert was recently contacted by Beth Greenfield, a Yahoo News reporter for Yahoo Shine, regarding a new Chicago Transit Authority initiative to hold parents responsible for subway graffiti at the hands of their minor children. Yahoo ran across a chart depicting the parental responsibility laws for all 50 states contained on the Matthiesen, Wickert,…