Daniel J. Zollner Senior Counsel

Daniel J. Zollner is a Member in Dykema's Insurance Industry Group in the Chicago office. Mr. Zollner's practice focuses on ERISA, insurance and commercial litigation and counseling. With regard to ERISA matters, he handles employee benefit claims and litigation, stop loss coverage and litigation and administrative hearings, and advises plans and third party administrators on ERISA claim and appeal procedures, plan provisions, employee benefit claims, and coverage under stop loss policies.

In his insurance practice, Mr. Zollner handles litigation involving first and third party insurance claims, business income claims, intergovernmental self-insured pods, bad faith claims, professional liability claims, and the residual market. He also handles administrative hearings before state regulatory authorities, and advises on insurance coverage issues and policy wording.

Mr. Zollner has tried more than two dozen jury and bench cases to verdict, as well as trying a number of administrative hearings and arbitrations to judgment. He has also briefed and argued more than two dozen federal and state appeals in Illinois and Michigan and before the 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th and 9^th Federal Courts of Appeal.

Mr. Zollner directly handles lawsuits in Cook, DuPage, Kane and Will Counties, the Northern and Central Districts of Illinois, the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan, and the Northern District of Indiana. He also supervises litigation nationwide for clients.