Mr. Feary focuses on transportation insurance designs to reduce exposure to the firm’s transportation clientele. He counsels clients on alternative risk programs including single parent and group captive insurers, risk retention groups, and various self-insurance and self-insured retention programs. Mr. Feary also conducts insurance audits and supervises litigation in the areas of premium disputes and specialized transportation insurance coverage controversies, including those involving occupational accident insurance. In addition, he regularly designs independent contractor programs and defends independent contractor disputes.
Gregory M. Feary is a managing partner who practices primarily in the area of transportation insurance law and transportation contract matters. He is the Vice Chair of the ATA/NAFC Risk Management & Insurance Advisory Committee and a member of the ATA Insurance Task Force for which he serves as Chairman of the Lawyer’s Subcommittee. He also served as ATA’s national transportation insurance law counsel throughout the 1990s. He was a member of the Advisory Board of Purdue University's Center for Transportation Distribution Logistics and has been named as one of the top 5% of Indiana lawyers in the 2004 and 2005 Indiana Super Lawyers® peer survey selection. Mr. Feary has created and counseled many captive insurance companies and is the author of The Definitive Industry Primer on Occupational Accident Insurance in Trucking. He is also the author of both Independent Contractor Employment Classification: A Survey of State and Federal Laws in the Motor Carrier Industry, 35 Trans. Law J. 139 (2008) and 1995 Developments in Workers' Compensation, 29 Ind. L. Rev. 1139 (1996) and drafted Indiana's law deeming owner-operators of trucks to be independent contractors for purposes of workers' compensation.
Mr. Feary graduated from Eastern Illinois University (B.A.) and the Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis (J.D.)
Admitted to the Indiana Bar in 1988, Mr. Feary is licensed to practice before all Indiana state and federal courts and the U.S Supreme Court. He is a member of the Indianapolis, Indiana State, and American Bar Associations.
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