Nancy is a member in the Litigation Section, practicing in the Boston office. She is an active member of the firm's Insurance/Reinsurance Group, Insurance/Bankruptcy Group, and Product Liability and Complex Tort Litigation Group.
Nancy has extensive experience representing and advising primary and excess insurers on the business and legal implications of a variety of complex coverage issues involving personal and commercial lines of insurance. Her experience includes representing insurers with respect to coverage disputes arising under directors and officers, professional liability, managed health care, aviation, fiduciary, financial institutions, crime, automobile, homeowners, and general liability policies. Her practice has involved representing insurers in state, bankruptcy, and federal courts across the country.
Nancy also has significant experience advising corporations and individuals in a wide range of risk management issues. Her experience includes conducting exposure and risk analysis and implementing insurance and other risk transfer mechanisms to address those exposures and risks. Nancy also regularly works with corporate boards preparing insurance program audits and reviews, drafting director/officer indemnity agreements to complement the company's existing insurance program, identifying and addressing various insurance-related issues that arise in the road show and IPO context, and conducting insurance and indemnity due diligence for corporate transactions.
Nancy is a trustee of the Insurance Library Association of Boston. She is also an active member of the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters (CPCU) Society, both nationally and locally. Nancy is presently the secretary - an Executive Officer position - for the CPCU Society, and she is also a former governor and a member of the Coverage, Litigators, Educators and Witnesses (CLEW) Section Committee, and immediate past president of the Boston Chapter of the CPCU Society. Nancy is a co-chair of the Emerging Issues Subcommittee, Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee, and Litigation Section of the American Bar Association. She teaches CPCU 530, "The Legal Environment of Risk Management and Insurance;" CPCU 552, "Commercial Liability Risk Management and Insurance;" CPCU 560, "Financial Services Institutions;" and INS-22, "Personal Lines." Recently, the Boston Business Journal authored an "emerging leader" profile detailing Nancy's practice.
Publications and Speaking Engagements
· Panelist, "Current Issues in D&O Coverage: Changes in the Coverage Landscape", Internal Corporate Investigations and Forum for In-House Counsel National Institute, May 2012
· Moderator, "SEC CyberSecurity Guidelines: A New Basis for D&O Exposure?", 8th Annual National Directors & Officers Insurance ExecuSummit, D&O Liability, May 2012
· Panelist, "In the Government's Crosshairs? Governmental Investigations and Your D&O Coverage," 2011 Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) Conference (November 3, 2011)
· Moderated CPCU Webinar titled, "The Nuts and Bolts of Contractual Liability Exposures and Coverages" (October 5, 2010)
· Moderated PLUS panel titled, "A Worldwide Risk Insured -- Kidnap, Ransom & Extortion in the Age of Globalization" (October 7, 2010)
· Panelist, "Excess Insurance Disputes and D&O Claims Resolution," American Conference Institute (ACI), D&O Liability, December 2009
· Panelist, "Failing Financial Institutions: Impact of Insolvency on Coverage, Claims and Costs," American Conference Institute (ACI), Financial Institutions Insurance, March 2009
· Author, "Recent Developments in Directors and Officers Insurance Coverage," Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal, Winter 2009
· Panelist, "The Ever-Changing Management Liability Market and Litigation Landscape," Boston Bar Association, November 2008
· Panelist, "D&O Insurance: Understanding Basic Coverages and Current Issues," CPCU Annual Meeting, September 2008
· Panelist, "Mock Trial," CPCU Annual Meetings, 2005 through present
· Panelist, "Subprime & the Credit Crisis: Exploring Potential Liability for Directors, Officers and Their Insurers," IQPC, The Subprime Mortgage Crisis Summit, February 2008
· Author, "When Two Worlds Collide: Understanding D&O Coverage in the Bankruptcy Setting," The Insurance Coverage Law Bulletin, January/February 2008
· Author, "The Subprime Mortgage Crisis and D&O Insurance, a New Frontier of Litigation," The Insurance Coverage Law Bulletin, January 2008
· Panelist, "Contracting Infirmity: Professional Services Contract Wordings as The First Line of Defense for Professional Service Firms," PLUS International Conference, November 2007
· Panelist, "D&O Insurance 101: What you need to know and why?" CPCU Annual Meeting, September 2007
· Panelist, "D&O Insurance: A Policy Overview," CPCU Society, D&O Insurance: Understanding Exposures, Coverages & Current Issues, June 2007
· Panelist, "Ownership & Coverage in Corporate Bankruptcies," American Conference Institute (ACI), D&O Liability Insurance, May 2007
· Author, "Unriddling the Sphinx: the Insured v. Insured Exclusion and the Multiple Capacities of D&O," The Insurance Coverage Law Bulletin, September 2005
· Author, "Avoiding the Pitfalls of Stipulated Settlements," The Insurance Coverage Law Bulletin, June 2003
Nancy is a member of the American Bar Association, the CPCU Society, the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS), the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC), and the Massachusetts, Women's, and Boston Bar Associations. She received her B.A., cum laude, from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas (1989) and her J.D. from Boston College Law School (1992).
Industries
Insurance