Joseph A. Fink

Member

PROMINENT ASSIGNMENTS

Retention Member and Counsel for Michigan’s largest healthcare provider, and subsidiaries, in numerous pending transactional events and commercial litigations, including: a putative national class action premised upon alleged ERISA violations in the Northern District of Illinois; and an action by Michigan’s Attorney General concerning a capital contribution of in excess of $100 million to a subsidiary

Chief Counsel for ACIG, and other defendants, in a putative RICO class action in the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals after securing a dismissal in the E.D. of Michigan

Retention Member and Counsel for an investor acquiring a Michigan domiciled insurer

Insurance Regulatory Representations:

Chief Legal Counsel to Rehabilitator (Commissioners of Michigan's Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation, "OFIR"), American Way Life
Chief Legal Counsel to Rehabilitator, American Way Casualty
Chief Legal Counsel to the Liquidators (Commissioners of OFIR) of: Great Lakes Life, Mid-America Life Assurance and American Commercial Liability
Chief Legal Counsel to Liquidator of First Security Casualty Company
Deputy Rehabilitator and Supervisor of American Way Life and American Way Casualty

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS

Michigan's Largest Health Care Company and Insurance Subsidiaries

Various Financial and Commercial Entities

Various Land Developers including Eyde Construction Company

Various Life and Property Casualty Insurers including CNA and Affiliates

PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT

Universal Holding Corporation (Michigan insurance holding company), Director
Professionals Direct, Inc. (Michigan insurance holding company), 2002-September 2007, Director (company acquired by larger public company), Chair of Governance Committee, Member, Compensation Committee (past)
The Association of Life Insurance Counsel
International Association of Insurance Receivers
State Bar of Michigan, sections of Corporation/Finance and Business Law, Real Property Law, and Labor Law
State Bar Disciplinary Board; Chair, Ingham County Hearing Panel
Advisory Board, LLM in Insurance, Cooley Law School
Inns of Court, Master, MSU-DCL
Trial Experience Subcommittee, Chair; DeVitt Committee (Trial Competency), U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan (past)

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Olivet College, Trustee, Secretary of Board (past)

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Regulatory & Legislative Quarterly, CPCU Society, co-author, “Honestly, This May Not Be the Best Policy,” 2006
National Business Institute, co-author, Civil Trial Procedures in Michigan
Mississippi College of Law Review, co-author, “Creditors Committee Liability for Statements Made in Connection with Reorganization Cases”
Editor, Dickinson Wright’s Insurance Legal News