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MICHAEL yOUNG
Michael Young is a litigation partner at Reichardt Noce & Young, LLC in St. Louis, Missouri, with a primary emphasis in insurance law and bad faith. For over twenty years, Mr. Young has represented insurers in complex insurance coverage and extra-contractual matters in Missouri and Illinois. He has advised insurers in drafting policy language and claims forms, advocating legislative changes, and developing claims best practices. Mr. Young also serves as Adjunct Faculty at Saint Louis University School of Law and teaches a course in Insurance Law.
Mr. Young has been selected as a Best Lawyer in America in Insurance Law, a Super Lawyer for Insurance Coverage, and a Fellow in the American College of Coverage Counsel (ACCC). He received the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel’s (FDCC) 2023 Andrew C. Hecker Award for the Most Outstanding Article in the FDCC Quarterly and received the Claims and Litigation Management (CLM) Alliance’s Professional of the Year Award in the category of Outside Defense Counsel in 2022.
Over the years, Mr. Young has published numerous articles on insurance coverage and extra-contractual topics in industry publications, such as Coverage Opinions, CPCU Society Insights Magazine, Captive Insurance Company Reports, FDCC Insights, For The Defense, DRI Today, CLM Magazine, MODL Newsletter, IDC Quarterly, and The Illinois Manufacturer. He publishes a quarterly insurance newsletter, Coverage Review, and regularly posts about insurance coverage and extra-contractual issues on LinkedIn. He is often quoted on these issues in legal and insurance publications, such as Law360, Bloomberg Law, Risk & Insurance, and The Insurer TV.
Mr. Young is a frequent speaker on insurance law and extra-contractual topics, including serving as faculty for educational workshops and other industry training. He has presented at seminars, webinars or podcasts for groups such as the American Bar Association (ABA), ACCC, Property and Liability Resource Bureau (PLRB), National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC), National African-American Insurance Association (NAAIA), RISE Professionals, CLM, FDCC, the Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers (MODL), Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel (IDC), Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (IICLE), Perrin Conferences, Strafford, and National Business Institute.
Mr. Young currently is a member of the ABA, where he serves in the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section and on the Insurance Coverage Litigation committee of the Litigation Section. He is also a member of MODL, where has served in prior years on the Legislative Committee. Mr. Young is a member of the St. Louis County Bar Association. In prior years, he also served as Chair of the Insurance Law Committee of the IDC.
Mr. Young graduated summa cum laude from Saint Louis University School of Law in 2002 where he was the Valedictorian of his class. He graduated summa cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in history.
You may download Mr. Young’s CV here. You may contact him at mly@rnylaw.com or by calling (314) 443-9814.