Greg Feary

Practice Areas

- Independent Contractor Counseling

- Insurance & Risk Managment

- Transportation Contracts

- Legislative Services

- Emerging Technologies

- Mergers & Acquisitions

- Investigations & Audits

- Corporate Structuring & Strategy

- Alternative Staffing Agreements & Driver Leasing

- Antitrust & Trade Regulation

- Strategic Advocacy Support

Professional Memberships

Purdue University’s Center for Transportation Distribution Logistics

-- Advisory Board

American Trucking Associations (ATA)

-- Vice Chair, National Accounting and Finance Council Risk Management & Insurance Advisory Committee

-- ATA Insurance Task Force, Chairman of the Lawyer’s Subcommittee

-- National transportation insurance law counsel

National Home Delivery Association

The Customized Logistics and Delivery Association

Indiana University’s Robert H. McKinney School of Law

-- Adjunct Professor of Law

Indianapolis Bar Association

Indiana State Bar Association

American Bar Association

Career

Gregory Feary is president and a managing partner of the Scopelitis Law Firm. He focuses on laws regarding transportation and related industries, including independent contractor issues, legislation, insurance, corporate structure designs, and contract matters. He also serves as a primary contact for mergers and acquisitions due diligence work and advises on corporate structure and risk mitigation issues.

He has created and counseled many captive insurance companies. Additional services Feary provides include:

-- Auditing independent contractor programs

-- Providing legislative support on independent contractor issues

-- Counsel regarding alternative risk programs, including single and group captive insurers, risk retention groups, and various self-insurance and self-insured retention programs

- - Insurance audits

-- Supervision of litigation in the areas of premium disputes and specialized transportation insurance coverage controversies, including those involving occupational accident insurance

-- Designing independent contractor programs

-- Defending independent contractor disputes

Feary is a national thought leader in transportation and is involved with many industry organizations.

Publications

-- The Definitive Industry Primer on Occupational Accident Insurance in Trucking

-- Independent Contractor Employment Classification: A Survey of State and Federal Laws in the Motor Carrier Industry, 35 Trans. Law J. 139 (2008)

-- 1995 Developments in Workers’ Compensation, 29 Ind. L. Rev. 1139 (1996)

-- Drafter, Indiana owner-operator exception under the definition of an employee in the Worker’s Compensation Act

Education

Awards