Steven Schildt Email Address

Attorney, Partner, and Vice-Chair of Insurance Law Dept

Post & Schell, P.C. is committed to legal excellence. We provide sophisticated legal services and strategic counseling to highly-regulated industries and their directors, officers, and stakeholders regionally, nationally and internationally. We provide our clients with problem-solving and efficient litigation, trial, appellate, regulatory, compliance, corporate, and public policy representation.

I am a Partner and the Vice-Chair of the Firm's Insurance Law Department. I work out of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey offices and have devoted my entire legal career to representing insurers in coverage, ERISA, and bad faith matters. I am honored to be included in the 2018-2021 editions of The Best Lawyers in America, Insurance Law category. My national coverage litigation and coverage opinion practice encompasses personal and commercial insurance disputes in almost all areas, including disability claims, ERISA claims, bad faith claims, life/accidental death claims, CGL claims (including additional insured and construction defect disputes), property insurance claims, COVID business interruption claims, health insurance claims, commercial auto claims, policy rescission/policyholder fraud, professional liability claims, D&O claims, long-term care claims, and all types of casualty claims. I have been lead counsel in thousands of such disputes in many different federal courts, state courts, and arbitration forums. I also handle complex coverage and bad faith matters involving excess verdicts, trigger issues, allocation, horizontal/vertical exhaustion, and the interaction among primary, excess, and umbrella policies. I also have proven experience in obtaining the dismissal of class action and RICO cases involving claims handling and policy interpretation issues. Further, I have extensive experience with the business side of insurance and routinely defend agents, brokers, and producers against business tort claims and errors/omissions claims (negligence, misrepresentation, etc.). Many of my victories have generated significant and often-cited published opinions. I often assist with claim investigations and routinely draft ROR and coverage position letters. I regularly present claims professional training seminars and have written numerous articles on insurance coverage issues. Every year since 2005 I have been honored by my peers as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer in the Insurance Coverage category as published by American Lawyer Media. I periodically serve as both a privately-retained and court-appointed mediator/arbitrator in coverage, ERISA, and bad faith cases. Finally, I am an elected member of the by-invitation-only Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel and the American College of Coverage Counsel (elected as a Fellow).