Andrew Boris is a partner based in the Chicago office of Tressler LLP. Andrew focuses his national practice on complex insurance and reinsurance matters involving both domestic and international claims. Before attending law school, Andrew worked for a major insurance company and was licensed to market securities and insurance products. He has extensive experience in interpreting insurance and reinsurance contracts and the coverages that they provide. Andrew has been involved in a broad range of complex insurance and reinsurance litigation matters, arbitrations, mediations, and coverage analysis. He has represented insurers and reinsurers in major insurance coverage and reinsurance disputes; negotiated settlements, commutations and other agreements; and advised insurers and reinsurers on claim and underwriting matters. In addition, Andrew works with insurance companies on wide-ranging enterprise liability issues and has coordinated company-wide internal investigations addressing such issues. As part of this effort, Andrew has provided supervision of the defense of direct actions advanced against insurers in courts around the country.
Andrew has been named to the Illinois Super Lawyers® list each year since 2005. Andrew is a regular speaker on insurance coverage and reinsurance topics on a national basis and is a frequent author with articles appearing in National Underwriter, Global Reinsurance, Journal of Reinsurance, Journal of Insurance, and RISE (CPCU Reinsurance Committee newsletter). In 2003, he was the recipient of the David C. Hilliard Award for the outstanding committee service from the Young Lawyers Section of the Chicago Bar Association. Additionally, Andrew is at the forefront of the firm’s diversity initiative and has recently been named a "Tier 1" mentor of the Chicago Committee on Minorities in Large Law Firms Mentorship Academy.