Lawyers / Professionals

 
Lowndes Christopher Quinlan       
Counsel
201 North Tryon Street
Charlotte, North Carolina 28202-2146
T: 704.343.2280
F: 704.444.8767
lquinlan@mcguirewoods.com
 

Mr. Quinlan focuses his practice on the recovery of insurance assets for policyholders in complex insurance coverage disputes with insurers. He has extensive experience handling claims involving insurance for financial products, directors and officers liability, employment practices liability, and commercial general liability. He has also handled numerous disputes under property policies arising from catastrophic losses.

Mr. Quinlan also has extensive experience handling claims involving information technology, including loss of data, computer crime, and technology errors and omissions. He has dealt with cutting-edge issues such as whether the loss of data is "property damage" under standard CGL policies, and whether conduct on the Internet can lead to "advertising injury."

He has advised clients concerning claims involving products liability, contractor liability, mold and sexual abuse. These cases have often raised complicated trigger of coverage questions and coverage under multiple policy years.


Practices & Industries
Previous Experience
  • Associate, Helms Mulliss & Wicker, PLLC, Charlotte, North Carolina
  • Associate, Peterson & Ross, Chicago, Illinois
  • Law Clerk, Lipshultz and Hone
  • Paralegal, Patton Boggs, Washington, D.C.

Publications
  • New Appleman on Insurance Law Library Edition, 4-28, Employment Practices Liability Insurance, Lexis 2010
  • New Appleman Insurance Law Practice Guide, 4-41, Employment Practices Liability Insurance, Lexis 2009
  • "Hurricane Katrina: The Insurance Aftermath," CPCU Society National Convention and Seminar, October 2005
  • "The Storm after the Storm: Causation Battles over Hurricane Katrina Losses," Mealey's Catastrophic Loss Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2005
  • "Key Issues in First Party Coverage for Y2K Claims," Mealey's Year 2000 Insurance Conference, San Francisco, California, February 1999

Professional Affiliations
  • Defense Research Institute
  • Practicing Law Institute

Civic Affiliations
  • Boy Scouts of America
    • Assistant Cub Master, Pack 24, British American School of Charlotte
    • Den Leader, Pack 24, British American School of Charlotte
    • Eagle Scout
  • Living Saviour Lutheran Church, Charlotte, North Carolina
    • Former Council Member
  • ReaWoods Homeowners Association
    • Former Board Member
 

EDUCATION

Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., J.D., 1994

College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, B.A., with Honors, 1989

 
 

ADMITTED

North Carolina 1999

Illinois 1994