Mr. Peters served on the CGL Reporter Editorial
Board 2007–2012, and contributed case summaries on a variety of coverage
topics.
Mr. Peters is a shareholder and managing partner with the Indianapolis law
firm Plunkett Cooney. Prior to that, he worked for Harrison & Moberly,
LLP, where he chaired his firm's appellate practice group and also served
as co-chair of its litigation group. He concentrates his practice to trials
and appeals in state and federal courts involving insurance coverage/bad
faith claims, business litigation, and employment/civil rights law. Since
2009, Law & Politics and Indianapolis Monthly have
included him on their annual list of "Indiana Super Lawyers" in the
area of appellate practice. This recognition is limited to only 5 percent of
the total lawyers in Indiana.
In 2011, Mr. Peters was elected as a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of
America (LCA). The LCA is a national trial lawyer honorary society composed
of only one-half of one percent of American lawyers. Fellows are selected
based upon excellence and accomplishments in litigation, both at the trial
and appellate levels, and superior ethical reputation.
Mr. Peters was a speaker at the ABA TIPS ICLC's mid-year CLE program
in February 2007, on venue and choice of law disputes in insurance coverage
litigation. He is a frequent speaker on insurance and employment litigation
related issues. He was a speaker at the 2006 DRI Insurance Coverage &
Claims Institute on the drafting history of the "occurrence"
definition in CGL insurance policy and recent case law interpreting that key
coverage term. He served as coeditor/co-contributor of the DRI's Bad
Faith Compendium (Indiana) (Spring 2004), Bad Faith Compendium
Update (Indiana) (Summer 2006). He is also coeditor/co-contributor on
the chapters involving judgments, declaratory judgments, and summary judgment
practice under Indiana law that appear in Indiana Practice (West
Publishing). He is coauthor of a chapter on "business risks"
exclusions in The Reference Handbook on the Comprehensive General
Liability Policy published by the ABA TIPS ICLC in 2010. Since 2004, Mr.
Peters has served as a panelist on masters level CLE seminars on Insurance
Coverage and Bad Faith issues offered bi-annually by the Indiana Continuing
Legal Education Forum.
In 2010, Mr. Peters served as the chair of the Litigation section of the
Indianapolis Bar Association (IBA), and he currently serves as vice chair of
the IBA’s Appellate Practices section. He also serves on the board of the
Indianapolis Bar Foundation. Since 2005, he has served as the secretary of
the Lawyers Club of Indianapolis.
Mr. Peters received his BA degree cum laude from Amherst College
with a double major in English and economics. He received his juris doctor
degree from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law at Bloomington,
Indiana.