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Rick Pitts

Rick Pitts

Richard S. Pitts is Vice-President and General Counsel to Arlington/Roe & Co., Inc., an insurance brokerage and managing general agent headquartered in Indianapolis. Rick also serves as general counsel to the Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana, Inc. As counsel to the “Big I,” Rick speaks annually at the association’s New Laws Seminars and teaches various seminars on insurance and employment related matters. Pitts has also presented continuing education seminars to insurance professionals in Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee.


Rick is a 1983 graduate of Wabash College and a 1986 graduate of Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis. Pitts clerked for the Honorable Patrick D. Sullivan, a judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals in 1986-87. Rick is admitted to practice before Indiana state and federal courts, the United States Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and is a member of local, state and national bar associations. Pitts has tried cases and participated in over seventy appeals.


Pitts has served as a panelist and lecturer on a variety continuing education subjects, including the Americans with Disabilities Act, “Mold: Issues Under the Microscope” for the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum (ICLEF), and “Insurance Issues for Builders” for the Indiana Builders Association. Rick has also served as chair of several of ICLEF’s seminars, including “Advanced Corporate Practice,” “Privacy Law,” and “Insurance Coverage Issues.” Rick has also presented seminars on “Insuring Fiduciary Exposures,” “Insurance Coverage Disputes,” and “Agency Succession and Perpetuation,” for the Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana, 2007. Pitts has co-authored two articles appearing in the Indiana Law Review.

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The Six Most Important Insurance Decisions of 2022: A Hexagonal Survey

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Join us for a fast-paced hour that looks at significant decisions within the property and casualty insurance segment in the last year.  Addressing everything from application issues to pollution coverage questions, with a smattering of exclusions and definitions thrown in, the cases in the last twelve months are varied and influential for everyone in the industry.

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Five Hot Coverage Decisions

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Coverage cases are as varied as the people and entities our industry insures.  Join us for a fast-paced one-hour as we discuss five of the most significant coverage cases in the last 12 months. There's something for everyone in this webinar. 

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Home-Based Businesses in the Era of AirBNB and VRBO

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For many insurance professionals, "sharing economy" means a new set of coverage challenges applicable to traditional policy forms.

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Eight Court Cases You Should Know By Name (2-part series)

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Sometimes, a name says it all. There are slightly more than a handful of insurance industry cases that have become known by name. This seminar explores this phenomenon by looking at the cases which can be known by one name and providing a substantive discussion of the principles they represent.

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Five Court Cases You Need to Know by Name

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Students completing this webinar gain an understanding of how the historical cases continue to affect the way insurance coverage is interpreted today.

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Scared by Construction Bonds? You Should Be! (2-part series)

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This two-part seminar presents a wide-ranging examination of bond-related issues connected to the construction industry.

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