Mr. Schiff is a Partner in Haight Brown & Bonesteel’s San Francisco office and a member of the Risk Management & Insurance Law Practice Group. For over 30 years, he has specialized in counseling clients about insurance coverage, risk management and reinsurance matters. His coverage practice includes property, general liability, directors and officers liability, employment practices liability, crime, inland marine and workers' compensation issues.
He also advises brokers, risk managers and corporate counsel about a variety of risk financing and risk management questions. Mr. Schiff is among the few California-based lawyers experienced in handling reinsurance arbitrations and negotiations, representing both ceding companies and reinsurers in California and elsewhere.
A frequent speaker at insurance education programs, Mr. Schiff has made presentations at conferences sponsored by the Excess/Surplus Lines Claims Association (now the International Association of Claim Professionals), the Reinsurance Association of America, the Insurance Educational Association and the Property Loss Research Bureau, among others.
Author of several articles on insurance, risk management and reinsurance topics, as well as co-author of the introductory chapter in CEB's California Liability Insurance Practice. Mr. Schiff continues to serve as an annual update author of this two volume practice guide.