Wystan Ackerman is a partner at Robinson & Cole LLP in Hartford, Connecticut, where he chairs the firm's Class Action Team. He has a national practice focusing on defending insurers in class actions and litigating critical insurance coverage issues at the trial and appellate levels. He writes the blog Insurance Class Actions Insider at www.insuranceclassactions.com. He has defended class actions in a variety of substantive areas and industries, including insurance, products liability, financial services, and securities. Mr. Ackerman also has litigated prominent coverage cases arising from, for example, the September 11th catastrophe, Hurricane Katrina and Chinese-made drywall. Mr. Ackerman has litigated appeals in the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth and Eleventh Circuits, as well as in various state appellate and supreme courts, and has opposed certiorari petitions in the U.S. Supreme Court. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Bowdoin College, and his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a James Kent Scholar and a notes editor of the Columbia Law Review.