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Josephine Hicks represents a wide variety of clients including manufacturing and chemical companies, textile companies, insurance companies and public utilities.
Ms. Hicks represents and advises these clients on a broad range of issues, including:
Insurance coverage disputes, including disputes over coverage for environmental related claims, construction disputes, general liability claims and "stop loss" insurance for health benefit plans
Products liability, premises liability and industrial accidents, including asbestos exposure claims
Defense of personal injury, death and property damage claims
Damage claims unique to the defense of public utilities
Ms. Hicks served as law clerk to the Honorable Harry W. Wellford of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in 1986-87.
While at Vanderbilt University, Ms. Hicks was the senior student writing editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review.
Professional & Community Activities
Lay representative from the United States, Anglican Consultative Council, 2005-2012
Executive Council, Episcopal Church, the board of the national church, 2003-2009
Publications & Speaking Engagements
"Stub Policies: A Little More Time May Mean A Lot More Coverage," ABA Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee Conference, March 2006
Preparing for Electronic Discovery, Electronic Discovery Conference, January 2006
Trigger of Coverage for Property Damage Insurance Claims in North Carolina - What's the Latest? North Carolina Lawyers Weekly, May 2005
Understanding and Avoiding D&O Liability Policy Rescission, American Conference Institute D&O Liability Insurance Conference, December 2003
D&O Coverage in the Post-Enron World, Coverage Magazine, December 2002
Choice of Law in Insurance Coverage Disputes: A Fifty State Compendium, Journal of Insurance Coverage, 2001
Insurance Coverage: What the Corporate Counsel Needs to Know, North Carolina Bar Corporate Counsel Section Meeting, May 2001
Trigger of Coverage: The Last Vestiges of the Manifestation Theory, Journal of Insurance Coverage, 2000 | 