Jeffrey
O’Connell teaches insurance and torts at the University of Virginia
School of Law and is a specialist in accident and insurance law. He is
the co-author of the principal work which proposed no-fault insurance.
Since 1966 he has written or co-written 12 books dealing with accident
law, published dozens of articles on tort and insurance law, and lectured
extensively throughout the United States and the world.
A graduate of Harvard Law School, O’Connell went on to be a trial lawyer in Boston with the firm of Hale & Dorr. He came to Virginia in 1980 after 16 years at the University of Illinois. O’Connell has served on the board of directors of Consumers Union, the Educational Advisory Board of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Medical and Safety Committee of the NCAA. In 1992 he received the Robert B. McKay Award for Tort and Insurance Scholarship from the American Bar Association.