Attorney Profile
- Practice Areas
- Insurance and Reinsurance
- Bar Admissions
- New Jersey
- U.S District Court, District of New Jersey
- Education
- Rutgers University School of Law-Newark, J.D., High Honors, Order of the Coif, 2006
- University of Notre Dame, B.B.A., magna cum laude, 2000
Eric P. Berg
Associate
Eric P. Berg is an Associate in Riker Danzig’s Insurance and Reinsurance group. Eric focuses his practice on complex insurance and reinsurance disputes in a number of different areas, including insurance and reinsurance coverage, corporate litigation, insurance defense, agency disputes and regulatory matters. Eric has amassed experience in matters involving disputes arising under a variety of reinsurance products, including finite, excess of loss, quota share and casualty clash contracts. He has been involved in arbitration and litigation addressing the "follow the fortunes" doctrine, custom and practice of reinsurance product placement in the domestic and London markets, interaction of various reinsurance contracts within the broader reinsurance program structure, breach of retention warranties, premium adjustment collections, third-party administrator relationships, and the ceding and collection of reinsurance recoverables.
Eric also focuses his practice on professional liability matters, including the aggressive defense of claims against accountant, attorney, real estate agent and medical services administrator clients.
Law & Politics magazine has named Eric one of New Jersey’s Rising Stars.
Eric is currently a student of the John C. Lifland American Inn of Court.
Eric earned his J.D. from Rutgers School of Law – Newark, graduating with High Honors and as a member of The Order of the Coif. While attending law school, Eric served as Senior Managing Editor of the Rutgers Law Review and authored “Injunctions Barring Suit Against Insolvent Insurance Companies: State Cooperation Through Tit-for-Tat Strategy,”" published at 57 Rutgers Law Review 1377 (Summer 2005).
During law school, Eric served on the pro bono program of the Seton Hall Center for Social Justice, working with the Victims of Crime Compensation Board to create awareness surrounding the effects of identity theft. Eric also is the recipient of the New Jersey State Bar Foundation Scholarship.
Eric obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame, graduating magna cum laude. While pursuing his undergraduate degree, Eric studied Irish history and culture at the Keough Center for Irish Studies in Dublin, Ireland and took classes in international economics at University College Dublin.
