Marcos G. Cancio focuses his practice on complex insurance coverage litigation. He represents domestic and international insurers in coverage matters, including those involving professional liability, property and casualty disputes.
Marcos G. Cancio focuses his practice on complex insurance coverage litigation. He represents domestic and international insurers in coverage matters, including those involving professional liability, property and casualty disputes.
Publications & Presentations
- Co-presented: “Construction Defect Coverage Litigation – Where Are We Now and What's Next? An overview, recent developments, and "green" buildings,” Sedgwick’s Chicago Seminar Series (October 5, 2011).
- Author: "Insurer Has Duty to Defend Sexual Abuse Claims Where Negligence of Partner Is Alleged," Sedgwick’s Insurance Law Update (March 2011).
- Author: "Exhaustion by Actual Payment Is Required to Trigger Excess D&O Policies," Sedgwick’s Insurance Law Update (July 2010).
- Co-author: "Divide or Conquer? A Primer on Allocation Between Covered and Uncovered Claims and Insured and Uninsured Parties" course materials, American Bar Association’s Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee CLE Seminar (March 2007).
- Co-author: "Toxic Tort and Environmental Law Section Case Law Update" meeting materials, The Federation of defense & Corporate Counsel, Winter Meeting (March 2005).
Memberships & Honors
He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association and the Hispanic National Bar Association. He also serves in the Associate Board of the Chicago Committee on Minorities in Large Law Firms and is a member of the Loyola University Chicago School of Law Dean’s Diversity Advisory Council. In 2010, Law & Politics, the publisher of Super Lawyers Magazine named him an “Illinois Rising Stars 2010” in Insurance Coverage, an honor awarded to only 2.5 percent of lawyers in Illinois.
While in law school, Mr. Cancio received a CALI Award in transnational litigation and was named to the Dean’s List. He also participated in Loyola’s Honors Appellate Advocacy Program, where he received the award of Best Brief at the Loyola University Chicago Moot Court Competition and competed as a member of the National Hispanic Bar Association Moot Court Team. He served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Michael T. Mason of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.