Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.

Nancy is a noted insurance coverage litigator with extensive experience representing primary and excess insurers on the business and legal implications of complex coverage issues involving commercial, transactional, and personal lines of insurance. Nancy serves as lead counsel in coverage litigation in state, bankruptcy, and federal courts across the country. With her vast knowledge of the insurance industry, she also advises companies on a wide range of risk management issues, frequently conducting exposure and risk analysis and assisting companies with implementing risk transfer mechanisms. Nancy frequently teaches, speaks, and writes on insurance-related topics.

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 property and casualty and life insurance. Her experience includes representing insurers with respect to coverage disputes arising under directors and officers, professional liability, managed health care, life, aviation, fiduciary, financial institutions, crime, automobile, homeowners, and general liability policies. Nancy also has substantial experience advising clients with respect to potential coverage implications arising in the bankruptcy context. 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. Additionally, she counsels clients in potential risk factors arising from M&A activity, including those related to de-SPAC transactions.

Referred to by clients as “a figurehead in the Boston insurance community and beyond”, Nancy is deeply involved in various leading industry and trade organizations including a multiple year term as President of the Insurance Library Association of Boston (she is currently the Library’s General Counsel). She also served as an Executive Officer of the CPCU Society, President of the Boston Chapter of the CPCU Society, a Board Trustee of the PLUS Foundation and member of the New England PLUS Steering Committee.  She has previously authored the D&O Insurance chapter of the Business Law Section’s Annual Review and she is a co-author of the Declaratory Judgement chapter of the Massachusetts Liability Insurance Manual. She has spoken, published and chaired programs and publications for the Professional Liability Underwriting Society, the Business Insurance Conference and various state and national Bar Associations.

Nancy is a former member of the Firm's Policy Committee.

Fellow, American College of Coverage Counsel Board of Trustees, PLUS Foundation Former President of the Board of Trustees and General Counsel, Insurance Library Association of Boston Member, Education Committee, PLUS Former Executive Officer, CPCU Society Past president, CPCU Society Boston Chapter CPCU Instructor, “The Legal Environment of Risk Management and Insurance,” “Commercial Liability Risk Management and Insurance,” “Financial Services Institutions,” and “Personal Lines” Past Member, Steering Committee, PLUS New England Chapter Member, American College of Insurance and Extra Contractual Counsel Member, American Bar Association Member, Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) Member, International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC) Member, Massachusetts Bar Association Member, Women’s Bar Association Member, Boston Bar Association Fellow of the American Bar Foundation

Boston College (JD) Trinity University (BA)