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Cope Ehlers, P.C.

Carrie E. Cope

Shareholder

Phone: 312-549-9381
Email: CCope@CopeEhlers.com

Carrie E. Cope manages the firm’s specialty lines’ insurance claims and coverage consulting practice as well as the firm’s regulatory practice. Carrie’s legal career has been dedicated to assisting insurers in resolving their most difficult problems arising from claims and coverage disputes, and regulatory and compliance issues. Carrie’s experience encompasses both commercial and personal insurance product lines including the following: directors and officers liability (for-profit and not-for-profit), social media liability, cyber and technology liability, employment practices liability, fiduciary liability, professional liability, errors and omissions, trade credit, glass insurance and general commercial general liability. Carrie is also a member of the LexisNexis Practical Guidance Insurance Advisory Board.

Experience

Cope Ehlers, P.C.

Shareholder and President

Head of Firm’s Regulatory and Insurance Coverage Consulting Practices

2016 - present

Schuyler, Roche & Crisham, P.C.
Shareholder

Head of Firm’s Regulatory and Insurance Coverage Consulting Practices
2010 to 2016

Member of Board of Directors
2012 - 2015

USPlate Glass Insurance Company

General Counsel and Member of Board of Directors
2009 - present

Tressler LLP
Partner

Head of Firm's Regulatory Practice

2003 - 2010

Peterson & Ross
Partner
2000 - 2003

Associate
1992 - 2000

Education

J.D., University of Dayton School of Law, Dayton, OH, 1990

B.A. w/ Honors, Western Illinois University, 1981

Bar and Court Admissions

Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Publications and Presentations

  • Unwrapping AI for the Chicago Legal Community, Presented by the Chicago Bar Association Insurance Law Committee and Lexis Nexis. 12/14/2023
  • Cyber, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, and Insurance: Managing and Assessing RiskCyber, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, and Insurance: Managing and Assessing Risk (Lexis Nexis Aug 1, 2023)
  • New Appleman Illinois Insurance Law Practice Guide (co-authored LexisNexis August 2019-2022)
  • Cyber Risks, Social Media and Insurance: A Guide to Risk Assessment and Management (co-authored LexisNexis 6th Edition August 2021-2022)
  • Module 3: Professional Liability Insurance, Professional Liability Underwriting Society, 2017 Update
  • “Game of Drones: A 21st Century Challenge for Insurers” (co-authored.) New Appleman On Insurance: Current Critical Issues in Insurance Law, 2016
  • Cyber Risks, Social Media and Insurance: A Guide to Risk Assessment and Management (co-authored LexisNexis August 2015)
  • “Breaking Bad” in Cyberspace: a Challenge for the Insurance Industry, 2015 Emerging Issues 7296 (2015)
  • Coverage Disputes Arising from Cyber Claims, 24 Coverage (A.B.A. Sec. Litig. Ins. Coverage Litig. Comm.), no. 4, July-Aug. 2014
  • Social Media and Insurance: The Insider’s Guide to Successful Risk Assessment and Management (co-authored LexisNexis May 2014)
  • Co-author, "Only Partially Covered?: What You Need to Know About Allocation Under Management Liability Policies." New Appleman On Insurance: Current Critical Issues in Insurance Law, Summer 2013
  • Courts Re-Examine an Insurer’s Duty to Settle, PLUS Journal, December 2012
  • Presenter at the Professional Liability Underwriting Society’s Medical Professional Liability Symposium in Chicago on the Impact of Social Media on Insurance Companies (March 28 - 29, 2012)
  • On the Cusp of Change: the Intersection of Social Media and Insurance — New Appleman on Insurance Law, Current Critical Issues in Insurance Law (co-authored LexisNexis 2011)
  • Directors' and Officers' Liability Insurance, Chapter 22 — New Appleman Law of Liability Insurance (LexisNexis 2011)
  • Building Bridges or a Bridge to Nowhere?: The Impact of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act on Insurance (LexisNexis Blog, August 2010)
  • Navigating Coverage on a Road with Obstacles: D&O Insurance in the Bankruptcy Context - New Appleman on Insurance Law, Current Critical Issues in Insurance Law (LexisNexis 2009)
  • Regulation of Policy Forms - New Appleman on Insurance Law, Library Edition (LexisNexis 2009)
  • Directors' and Officers' Liability: Exposures, Risk Management and Insurance Coverage - National Underwriter (co-authored December 2008)
  • Developments Impacting Directors' and Officers' Liability Insurance Policy Drafting, Negotiations and Claims — New Appleman on Insurance Law, Current Critical Issues in Insurance Law (LexisNexis co-authored 2008)
  • OCG Opinion No 08-10-07, Special Bulletin
  • Understanding Directors' and Officers' Liability Insurance, Chapter 37 - Appleman Insurance Law Practice Guide (LexisNexis 2008)
  • Towers of Coverage: Considerations for Leveling the Playing Field in Complex Insurance Transactions - ABA's Professional Liability Litigation Alert Newsletter (Vol. V., No. 1, W/S 2008)
  • Directors' and Officers Liability Insurance, Chapter 43 - California Insurance Law & Practice (LexisNexis 2007)
  • The Insolvent D&O Insurer: A Glass Half Full or Completely Empty? -ABA TortSource (co-authored with James Knox, September 2004)
  • Employment Practices Liability (EPL) Exposures - International Risk Management Institute (March 2003)

Awards

2015 BTI Consulting Group Client Service All-Star

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