Additional Practice Areas
· Property Casualty Insurance Policy Coverage and Defense
· Appellate Representation – Civil Appeals
Practice areas include all aspects of property casualty insurance coverage, bad faith, professional liability defense (particularly insurance agency errors and omissions), environmental coverage and defense, and general insurance defense litigation.
Education
· Purdue University (B.A., with highest distinction, 1977)
· Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (designation 1987)
· Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis (J.D., 1997)
Member
· Indianapolis Bar Association
§ Environmental Law Section
§ Litigation Section
· Indiana State Bar Association
§ Environmental Law Section
§ Litigation section
· Defense Research Institute
· Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana
· American Bar Association
§ Vice Chair of the Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee for the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, 2006 – 2009
§ Chair elect for Tort Insurance Practices Section, Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee, 2010
§ Program Chair for the Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee’s 2010 Mid-Year Meeting
· Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter Society (CPCU), National and Central Indiana Chapters
§ Central Indiana Chapter “Chapter Connections” Committee Chairperson, 2003 – 2006; Board of Directors, 2006 – present; Secretary, 2007 – 2009
Author & Speaker
· “Employment-Related Liability – The Insurer’s Response,” Indiana Lawyer, March 17, 1999.
· "General Liability Insurance Coverage - What Businesses Know and Should Know about the Insurance They and Others Purchase," presented at the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana workshop "Legal Issues for the Business Owner," on May 13, 2004.
· "Errors & Omissions Coverage" Tool Box Presentation for the American Bar Association's Insurance Coverage Litigation Presentation, 2005
· "Commercial General Liability Insurance Policies - Legal Issues of Coverage Determination," Central Indiana Chapter of the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters (CPCU) Society Industry Day, 2005
· "Construction Defect Coverage Analysis: Easy as 1,2,3", CPCU Claims Quarterly, Spring 2006
· Moderator, “The Rules of Engagement – Severability of Exclusions and Severability in Recession Cases,” 15th Annual Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee Mid-Year Meeting, February 2007
· “CGL Insurance – What Businesses Know or Should Know,” Presentation at One Southern Indiana meeting, October 2007
· “Establishing the Foundation: Reviewing the Insurance Contract and Understanding Insurance Coverage Option,” National Business Institute, May 2007 and May 2008
· Moderator, “Smooth Sailing or Choppy Seas? – Coverage for Construction Defects,” 16th Annual Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee Midyear Program (presented by the TIPS section of the ABA), February 2008
· “Commercial General Liability Claim Handling,” National Business Institute, October 2008
Admitted to Practice
· Admitted to the bar, 1997, Indiana
· Admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana
Place of Birth
· Effingham, Illinois, March 4, 1956
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