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Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Heather Howell Wright

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Banking and Financial Services
Affordable Housing and Community Development
Cannabis

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Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Tennessee, U.S.A.

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Heather Wright helps financial institutions identify operational risks and determine business solutions to mitigate those risks. She provides regulatory and compliance advice and manages litigation for financial institutions regarding compliance with, and alleged violations of, security agreements and other contracts as well as lending and consumer finance statutes and regulations -- particularly in matters involving property insurance and flood insurance.

Heather also advises clients regarding risk management through insurance, including litigation of coverage issues when necessary. She helps policyholders maximize insurance recovery under a variety of commercial insurance policies such as property, general liability, professional liability, directors and officers, and commercial auto policies. In addition, she represents commercial property owners, commercial property managers and general contractors in the negotiation of insurance provisions in commercial sales contracts, leases, management agreements and construction contracts.

Bar Admissions

Tennessee, 2011
North Carolina, 2002

Court Admissions

United States Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit
United States Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit
United States Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
United States District Court, Middle District of North Carolina
United States District Court, Western District of North Carolina
United States District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee
United States District Court, Middle District of Tennessee
United States District Court, Western District of Tennessee

Education

Wake Forest University School of Law, J.D., 2002, cum laude; Order of the Coif; Executive Editor, Wake Forest Law Review; Wake Forest Moot Court Board
Sewanee: The University of the South, B.A., 1993

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Insurance Services Organization Revises Policy Forms to Address Cannabis
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, October 2019

The Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO), which develops standard insurance policy forms for use by insurers, recently released its first cannabis-related endorsements (Cannabis Endorsements) to the businessowner policy form. This new release provides five cannabis exclusion endorsements; two of the endorsements change property coverage for cannabis, and the other three endorsements change liability coverage for cannabis...

Regulators Release Updated Examination Procedures for Acceptance of Private Flood Insurance
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, October 2019

The final rule promulgated by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve (Federal Reserve), the Farm Credit Administration, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the National Credit Union Administration, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) went into effect on July 1, 2019, to implement the portion of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act mandating regulated lending institutions to accept private flood insurance policies...

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It Pays to Be Covered
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Bradley's It Pays to Be Covered Blog discusses insurance law developments and industry trends in property and casualty insurance, including the growing cyber insurance market, coverage for drones, and blockchain exposures. We also address practical risk management strategies of interest to risk...