Scott Seaman

Scott M. Seaman is co-chair of Hinshaw & Culbertson, LLP’s Global Insurance Services Practice Group. He is nationally recognized for representing insurers and reinsurers in a wide-range of complex property and casualty matters. As a commercial litigator and trial lawyer with more than 38 years of experience, he is known for employing his deep knowledge of the law, insurance, and financial industries, strategic thinking, and honed trial and appellate advocacy to produce creative solutions and outstanding results for clients. Clients regularly turn to Scott and his team for counsel and representation in challenging, complex, and high-stakes insurance and business matters. He has a legacy of public service encompassing cancer and patient advocacy, public and community service, and civil rights. He was named to the inaugural list of Midwest Trailblazers by The American Lawyer magazine. The list recognizes 50 professionals from 12 Midwestern states “who have moved the needle in the legal industry” and “are truly agents of change.” He was selected for his “high-profile, complex insurance coverage cases nationwide, which resulted in precedent-setting rulings that have altered insurance law.” He was named to Crain’s Chicago Business 2025 Notable Litigators & Trial Lawyers and has a Band 1 ranking in Insurance: Dispute Resolution by Chambers USA.

Scott is a prolific author and sought-after speaker on insurance and litigation issues. He has been recognized as a Top Insurance author for the last six consecutive years in the JD Supra Readers’ Choice Awards. He hosts and is executive producer of Hinshaw Insurance Law Television, which was honored with the 2024 and 2025 Professional Services Distinction Awards at the 30th and 31st Annual Communicator Awards. He is a frequent legal commentator. His books include Allocation of Losses in Complex Insurance Coverage Claims (13th Ed. Thomson Reuters 2025), Conquering and Curing Cancer -- The Cancer Survivor Book (2021) (Impact Book Award), Wrongful Death & Survival Actions (IICLE 2023), Duty to Defend: A Fifty State Survey (3rd Ed. 2025), and America 250: The History of Insurance & Insurance Law & Litigation in the United States (2026).

Scott is engaged in a variety of community and civic activities including those involving civil rights, health, economics, leadership and community service. He writes on these topics in addition to writing on legal, insurance, and litigation matters. His past and present activities include: Member of the National Board of Selectors Jefferson Awards for Public Service (Nobel Prize for public and community service). In this capacity he selected national winners, served on a delegation presenting reports to the White House and the US Senate on the state of volunteering in America, and was involved in a national high school leadership and philanthropy program. He co-founded the Chicago Chapter of the Lymphoma Research Foundation, and is a Founding Board Member of the Hippocratic Cancer Research Foundation.