Oct 15, 2026 · 21 min · 10 segments
Attorney Scott Seaman, partner, Hinshaw & Culbertson, discusses his book, “America 250: The History of Insurance and Insurance Coverage Law and Litigation in the United States,” examining insurance's…
Scott SeamanGuestJohn WeberHostSo Scott, can you tell us about the book? What inspired you and your co-authors to write it and the key takeaways for readers?
I'm old enough to remember the bicentennial and what an important celebratory and informational time it was.
So I thought I would take the opportunity to celebrate America's 250th birthday.
My partners and co-authors, Pedro and Peter, will be around to pick up the pieces and write about the tricentennial.
And you know as well as anyone that the insurance industry serves as the bedrock of our economy.
And all too often, it's maligned in the media and treated unfairly in America's civil justice system.
So we know that the world is a much better place because of America and because of the men and women in the insurance industry.
So the 250th birthday provided an opportunity for us to use it as a springboard to provide a wide-ranging education on the history of insurance, the development of insurance regulation, the development of various lines of insurance coverage, to examine really the industrialization our country has been through and the factors that have led to all these huge and increasing liabilities that we face.
And finally, to bring things forward and explore the contemporary and the cutting edge areas of insurance coverage.
And it even gave us an opportunity to come up with our nominations for the most significant insurance law cases in the history of the United States.
So Scott, can you tell us about the book? What inspired you and your co-authors to write it and the key takeaways for readers?
I'm old enough to remember the bicentennial and what an important celebratory and informational time it was.
So I thought I would take the opportunity to celebrate America's 250th birthday.
My partners and co-authors, Pedro and Peter, will be around to pick up the pieces and write about the tricentennial.
And you know as well as anyone that the insurance industry serves as the bedrock of our economy.
And all too often, it's maligned in the media and treated unfairly in America's civil justice system.
So we know that the world is a much better place because of America and because of the men and women in the insurance industry.
So the 250th birthday provided an opportunity for us to use it as a springboard to provide a wide-ranging education on the history of insurance, the development of insurance regulation, the development of various lines of insurance coverage, to examine really the industrialization our country has been through and the factors that have led to all these huge and increasing liabilities that we face.
And finally, to bring things forward and explore the contemporary and the cutting edge areas of insurance coverage.
And it even gave us an opportunity to come up with our nominations for the most significant insurance law cases in the history of the United States.
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