Carrie E. Cope

Carrie Cope is a partner in the firm’s Chicago office where she specializes in insurance law and has two synchronized practice areas of insurance regulation and specialty lines claim handling.

In her regulatory practice, Carrie represents insurers, agents, brokers, reinsurers, reinsurance intermediaries, alternative risk insurance groups and third party administrators on a wide variety of regulatory and compliance issues in the United States and foreign jurisdictions.

Carrie has extensive experience in product development and policy and endorsement drafting for a broad range of commercial and personal lines insurance policies. Carrie’s practice includes representing companies in responding to investigations by and complaints filed with state agencies, compliance and contract review, licensing, rate and form filings, market conduct examinations, corporate governance issues and preparing opinions on the validity of insurance-related transactions.

Carrie has over fifteen years of experience in providing specialty lines’ claim monitoring and coverage consulting services to the insurance industry. Her practice is primarily concentrated in the areas of directors’ and officers’ liability, professional liability, miscellaneous errors and omissions insurance employment practices liability.

Carrie writes and speaks frequently on insurance issues. She is currently an Expert Commentator for LexisNexis on insurance and regulatory issues. Her recent publications include a chapter on Understanding Directors’ and Officers’ Liability Insurance in the New Appleman Insurance Law Practice Guide.

Carrie is a member of Professional Liability Underwriting Society.