Thomas R. (Tom) Hrdlick

Thomas R. (Tom) Hrdlick

Tom Hrdlick is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP and a member of the firm's Insurance Industry Practice and Health Care Industry Team. Mr. Hrdlick's practice is concentrated in the fields of corporate and regulatory insurance law, with a particular emphasis on transactional work within the insurance industry and reinsurance runoff management.

Mr. Hrdlick has represented insurance companies and other insurance-related entities in a variety of transactions and corporate restructurings, including reinsurance affiliations, mergers, stock acquisitions, initial and secondary public offerings, demutualizations and mutual holding company conversions. Mr. Hrdlick has also counseled such entities with respect to their regulatory affairs, including their dealings with state insurance departments and matters involving federal agencies such as the SEC, FTC, Treasury, and OFAC.

A significant component of Mr. Hrdlick's practice also involves reinsurance transactions and the management of complex reinsurance runoff issues and disputes. Mr. Hrdlick has counseled cedents and reinsurers in connection with highly sophisticated reinsurance disputes, commutations and settlements/restructurings involving hundreds of millions of dollars of reinsurance receivables.

Mr. Hrdlick is a 1988 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and a 1985 graduate of Marquette University with a B.A. in political science. He is admitted to practice in Wisconsin and in the United States District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin, and is a former senior law clerk to the Hon. Rudolph T. Randa, United States District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

A member of the American Bar Association (Business Law Section and Tort & Insurance Practice Section), the Seventh Circuit Bar Association, the State Bar of Wisconsin, and the Milwaukee Bar Association, Mr. Hrdlick also is a past president and former member of the Board of Governors for the St. Thomas More Lawyers Society in Wisconsin and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Wisconsin Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation.

His presentations and publications include:

· "UETA, E-SIGN and Electronic Transactions in the P&C Industry - Are There Legal Obstacles to Going Paperless?" presentation to Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (February 19, 2008)

· "Protecting Privacy Under Gramm-Leach-Bliley (Act II): The NAIC's Model Safeguarding Regulation," published in the American Bar Association's Tort & Insurance Law Journal, Volume 37, No. 4 (Summer 2002)

· "Appellate Review of Remand Orders in Removed Cases: Are They Losing A Certain Appeal?" published in 82 Marquette Law Review 535 (Spring 1999)

He also co-authored:

· "Insurers Operating Under Assumed or Fictitious Names: When, How and ... What?!" published in the Federation of Regulatory Counsel's Quarterly?? Journal of Insurance Law and Regulation, Vol. XII, Ed. II (June 10, 2000)