Diversified
CHRISTOPER MANSFIELD
Senior vice president and general counsel, Liberty Mutual Holding Co. Inc. Age 60
THE COMPANY
Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group is a collection of
diversified financial services companies that together
comprise the seventh largest U.S. insurer. It’s also the
nation’s leading provider of workers’ compensation
insurance. Liberty Mutual, with 37,000 employees in 16
countries, reported 2000 revenue of $13.5 billion.
LEGAL DEPARTMENT
Mansfield oversees 786 lawyers and some 1,100
paralegals and support staff, making it the third
largest in-house legal department in the country,
according to Corporate Legal Times magazine.
Most of the attorneys work in the company’s
72-staff legal offices in the United States and
Canada defending policyholders in personal injury
litigation. The 46 lawyers at Liberty Mutual’s Boston
headquarters each specialize in one of five key practice areas: corporate matters, corporate litigation,
underwriting support, government affairs or employment law.
CHIEF RESPONSIBILITIES
Mansfield works on things of major financial and
strategic importance to Liberty Mutual, such as
mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, real estate
deals, offshore reinsurance transactions and major
litigation.
OUTSIDE COUNSEL
COMPANY
MUTUAL HOLDING
CO. INC.
CORPORATE
TRANSACTIONS
Debevoise &
Plimpton; Skadden
COMMERCIAL LAW AND
CONTRACTS LITIGATION
Clark & Distefano; Cozen
O’Connor; Duane Morris;
Kennedy Law Firm; London &
London; Nudelman, Nudelman
& Ziering; Ouellette, Deganis &
Gallagher; Peckar & Abramson;
Salon Marrow; Shumaker Loop;
Stein & Rotman; Updike, Kelly;
Wolf, Horowitz
SEPT. 11
Liberty Mutual estimates it will pay between $200
million and $300 million for claims related to last
month’s terrorist attacks, making it the worst catastrophe in Liberty Mutual’s 89-year history. Mansfield
won’t say how many claims related to the Sept. 11
attacks the company has received, although they
are for damage to apartments, office buildings
and automobiles near the World Trade Center, for
at least some of the four planes destroyed in the
crashes and for workers’ compensation and business interruption.
Mansfield has been on the phone with state regulators from Massachusetts and New York assuring
them that Liberty Mutual has sufficient reinsurance
protection and sufficient liquidity to pay the claims
and that it has enough adjustors processing them.
Mansfield has also reviewed Liberty Mutual’s contracts with its reinsurers to make sure they understood
what each party’s liability is. His staff talked to the
TORTS AND NEGLIGENCE
Austin Brownwood; Clark & Distefano;
Law Offices of Brian J. Ferber; Gwin
Steinmetz; Law Office of Keith S.Giardina;
Howard, Kohn; Kennedy Law Firm; Mayer,
Smith; Ouellette, Deganis & Gallagher;
Law Offices of Jeffrey W. Parks; Law
Offices of Gary A. Rosenberg; Law
Offices of Jonathan Stebenne; White and
Williams; Williams, Walsh
EMPLOYMENT AND LABOR
LITIGATION
Balch & Bingham; Ballard Spahr;
Bond Schoeneck; Christian & Barton;
Davis & Hamrick; Duane Morris;
Fisher & Phillips; Friday, Eldredge;
Frost Brown; Hedrick Gardner;
Jackson Lewis; Lind Lawrence;
marcus, McMahon; Ropers Majeski;
Semmes, Bowen; Seyfarth Shaw;
Smith Moore; Wells Marble
