JAMES T. NYESTE

Career History

Sole Practitioner (August 1999 to present): insurance law and coverage, ERISA claims, plaintiff's personal injury, employment, contract, and civil litigation generally.

Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon (1980 to July 1999): Equity partner (1987 to 1999); associate (1980 to 1987); Insurance Industry Practice Group (Vice Chairman and Assignments Partner, 1987 to 1995); Commercial Litigation Practice Group; Appellate Practice Group; Technology Committee.

Peterson, Ross, Schloerb & Seidel (1979 to 1980): Monitored U.S. litigation for Lloyd's, London; research and discovery in antitrust action against state and national medical associations; miscellaneous tort and commercial litigation.

Education:

  • J.D. University of Chicago Law School (1979)
  • B.S. Michigan State University (1976) (Highest honors, Mathematics); Honors College; National Merit Scholar; Phi Beta Kappa; President, MSU Mathematics Society
  • Additional courses: Legal Aspects of E-Commerce, Illinois Institute of Technology (1999)

Admitted to Practice:
  • Illinois Supreme Court (1979)
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1979), Trial Bar (1984)
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1983)
  • United States Claims Court (1987)
  • United States Supreme Court (1992)
  • United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois (1994)
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin (1995)

 Legal Publications:
  • Illinois Automobile Insurance Law, Thomson/West (2007), author of chapter on Bad Faith claims against insurance companies
  • Manual For Complex Insurance Coverage Litigation, Prentice Hall Law & Business (1993), ABA Task Force on Complex Insurance Coverage Litigation (co-author)
  • The Section 155 Remedy, The Policy (April, 2001) ISBA Insurance Section
  • Questions And Answers About Illinois Automobile Insurance And Accidents (2003), ISBA Insurance Section
  • Construction Defect Coverage: Another Court Gets It Wrong, The Policy (January, 2006) ISBA Insurance Section
  • UIM Arbitration And The Trial De Novo Provision, The Policy (May, 2006) ISBA Insurance Section
  • ERISA Health Care Plan Reimbursement From The Beneficiary's Personal Injury Recovery, Illinois Bar Journal (May, 2007), Illinois State Bar Association
Presentations at Legal Seminars:
  • "Claims for Insurance Company Bad Faith" presented at Hot Topics in Insurance Law, a CLE seminar by the ISBA Insurance Section, St. Louis, MO, June 7, 2008
  • "ERISA Health Care Plan Reimbursement From The Beneficiary's Personal Injury Recovery" presented at Insurance Law - Everything you want to know - and should ask, a CLE seminar by the ISBA Insurance Section, Chicago, IL, October 9, 2006, and Collinsville, IL, November 10, 2006
Public Service:
  • Member, Zoning Commission, Zoning Board of Appeals, and Fence Board of Appeals, Village of Glencoe, Illinois (2007 - present)

James T. Nyeste
Attorney at Law
1 N. LaSalle, Ste. 2100
Chicago, Illinois 60602

Ph: 312-750-1814
Fax: 312-223-8549
E-mail:  jnyeste@aol.com
www.coveragelaw.com