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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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Excess and Surplus Lines - Doing Business Well in a Hard Market

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Driven away from standard carriers by hard market conditions, many insureds (and even some insurance professionals) are encountering the excess and surplus lines market for the first time. This fast-paced hour is designed to remove some of the mysteries of the E&S market and deal with wholesalers and brokers. Join us as Rick Pitts and Diane Smith bring us up to date on how to best work with the E&S market.

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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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