Mike Warnick Email & Phone Number

Greater Chicago Area

Chief Compliance Officer for world-wide compliance and ethics program for eighth largest U.S. Property and Casualty insurer with $11 billion in gross written premium, $56 billion in assets, operating in 49 U.S. states and with offices in 12 foreign countries. Additionally, chief lawyer and general counsel for CNA's business segments, Commercial, Specialty, Life and Group, World-Wide P&C Claim and other corporate and run-off domestic and internal operations.• Compliance: Rebuilt corporate compliance around three-lines-of defense operating model across world-wide operations. Improved staffing, internal training, technologies, operating efficiencies, remedial activities, governance and risk assessment and controls. Led cyber security and data privacy compliance efforts and data breach response teams.• Insurance General Counsel: Organized legal teams around client-centered operating model. Senior legal advisor for product development, pricing, rate and form filing, and TPA, dedicated underwriting, agency and other distribution agreements. Exceeded benchmarks in client satisfaction and cost effectiveness.

Greater Chicago Area

Senior legal counselor with broad and varied corporate legal, claim and management responsibilities. Grew and led small and large teams (of as many as 500+ employees) and functional areas, including, Corporate Litigation, Extra-Contractual Oversight, Claim Legal, Staff Counsel, Environmental and Mass Tort Claims, P&C Legal, and captive law firms. Member of CNA’s Operating Committee. • Litigation: Resolved high value and enterprise threatening cases and claims, including eight matters disclosed in SEC filings with no material financial impact. Built corporate recovery program, adding millions to bottom-line. Built top tier litigation management platform premised on the acquisition and development of highly competent in-house counsel in order to lower the expense and reliance on outside counsel.• Claim Management: Led Environmental Mass Tort Claims and Strategic Claims and resolved numerous high severity asbestos and pollution claims which stabilized legacy and non-legacy books while at the same time improving survival ratios as benchmarked against peers and company history. Led Claim Legal during period of time of significant claim challenges and helped improve loss ratios, stabilize core books of business and improve financial performance.• Transactions: Legal lead or advisor in large transactions, including $2.2 billion loss portfolio transfer of asbestos and pollution liabilities and acquisition of Lloyd’s of London affiliate.• Regulatory: Directed legal responses and corrective action plans to multi-state and state-specific market conduct issues, state and federal government investigations, and congressional hearings.• Leadership: Improved employee performance, engagement and commitment as evidenced by enterprise and industry leading turn-over and other people management metrics.• Organization Building and Design: Rebuilt Claim Legal, reorganized P&C Legal, created captive law firm, and expanded staff counsel and coverage operations.

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

Bachelor Of Arts, Economics And History

Juris Doctor, Cum Laude