Maureen Pearcy is an appellate practitioner who focuses her practice primarily in the area of insurance coverage disputes. Ms. Pearcy also has trial experience in the areas of insurance coverage disputes with particular emphasis in professional liability matters. She also practices in the area of commercial litigation, including disputes involving the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Fair Debt Collection Practice Act, legal malpractice and the defense of class actions.
Ms. Pearcy has handled appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, several Florida District Courts of Appeal and the Florida Supreme Court. She has also assisted with
amicus briefs submitted to the Florida Supreme Court on behalf of insurance groups.
Ms. Pearcy’s published decisions include:
- Zurich American Ins. Co. v. Frankel Enter., No. 07-14694, 2008 WL 2787704 (11th Cir. July 18, 2008)
- Thomas v. George, Hartz, Lundeen, Fulmer Johnstone, King & Stevens, P.A., 525 F.3d 1107 (11th Cir. 2008)
- Van Tran v. City of Miami, et al., 261 Fed. Appx. 266 (11th Cir. 2008)
- Clarendon Nat’l Ins. Co. v. Muller, 237 Fed. Appx. 451 (11th Cir. 2007)
- Mahgoub v. Miami_Dade Cmty. College, No. 05-11520, 2006 WL 952278 (11th Cir. Apr. 13, 2006)
- Mt. Hawley Ins. Co. v. Sandy Lake, 425 F.3d 1308 (11th Cir. 2005)
Prior to joining Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP in December 1999, Ms. Pearcy worked for three years with a five-attorney law firm representing plaintiffs in the first secondhand smoke case to go to trial and the first class-action smokers' case to go to trial.