CHICAGO, May 13, 2025 — Stephen P. Pate has been named president of the American College of Coverage Counsel (ACCC) at the 2025 Annual Meeting in Chicago. Stephen will serve as president for the 2025-2026 term. Stephen is a founding member of the ACCC, and most recently served as president-elect in 2024 and secretary-treasurer on the 2023 – 2024 Board of Regents. Stephen has also served on the Membership Committee, and as a member of the Executive Committee.

Stephen, a member of the Global Insurance Department and co-chair of the property insurance group, focuses his litigation practice on Directors and Officers insurance matters, business interruption issues, CGL insurance matters, property insurance matters, builders risk matters, commercial general liability insurance disputes, fraud, and various other extracontractual litigation matters. Over a 30-year career in coverage work, he has tried more than 45 first-party extracontractual cases to verdict. He is a frequent author and speaker. He is also a member of the American Law Institute and an advocate in the American Board of Trial Advocates.

The ACCC, established in 2012, is the preeminent association of U.S., Canadian, and Bermudan lawyers who represent the interests of insurers and policyholders, with the mission of advancing the adjudication of insurance coverage and extracontractual disputes, enhancing the quality of the practice of insurance law, and providing peer-reviewed scholarship. The ACCC focuses on educating all sectors involved in the field of insurance law – including the judiciary, legal and insurance professionals, law students and businesses – on cutting edge, emerging, and critical issues such as developing trends in insurance law and bad faith, trial practice and alternative dispute resolution, policy formation and claims handling.