Originally from Automobile Insurance
Subrogation in All 50 States – Third Edition
Chapter 1 provides lawyers and lay insurance subrogation professionals with
the basic concepts of automobile insurance subrogation and the numerous legal
issues in which it is enveloped, with the hope that increased knowledge about
this confusing area of subrogation will equate to increased automobile
subrogation recoveries. This chapter also takes a cursory look at the different
types of subrogation, including Medicare, Medicaid, and Federal Employees
Health Benefit Act (FEHBA). Also included is a detailed exposition on the
purposes of subrogation, its benefits to the economy and the insurance
industry, and a critical and responsive look at some of the traditional
arguments used by trial lawyers and judges against the often ill-understood
concept of subrogation.
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Gary L.
Wickert is an insurance trial lawyer and
is regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on insurance subrogation. He
is the author of several subrogation books and legal treatises and is a
national and international speaker and lecturer on subrogation and motivational
topics. Mr. Wickert is also a politician in Wisconsin, serving his ninth term
as Town Supervisor in the Township of Cedarburg. After 15 years as the youngest
managing partner in the history of the 30-lawyer Houston law firm of Hughes,
Watters & Askanase, L.L.P., he returned to his native Wisconsin in 1998 and
co-founded the firm of Matthiesen, Wickert & Lehrer, S.C. He oversees a
National Recovery Program that includes a network of contracted subrogation law
firms in all 50 states, Mexico, Canada, and the United Kingdom and boasts
recoveries of nearly $1 billion in recoveries and credits for more than 250
insurance companies.