Cary Miller is a partner in the Kansas City office of Lewis Brisbois and a member of the Insurance Law Practice. Cary has 34 years of experience as a civil litigator and has tried many cases to juries and to the bench.

Cary has taken over 250 depositions of fact and expert witnesses and handled all phases of a civil lawsuit, including pleadings, motion practice and alternative dispute resolution. He has also written approximately 100 insurance coverage opinions and reservation of rights letters for clients. 

Publications

Professional Presentations

• Presenter: “Assignments of Insureds’ Rights Against Liability Insurers” (12/08/2015)
• Presenter: “But is it Really Insurance? Protections Afforded Under Rental Contracts” (01/13/2015) 

Admissions

• State Bar Admissions
  • Missouri
• State Supreme Courts
  • Missouri Supreme Court
• United States District Courts
  • United States District Court for the District of Kansas
  • United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri

Associations

• The Missouri Bar
• The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
• The Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers 

Awards & Honors

Barrister, Ross T. Roberts Inn of Court, Jackson County, Missouri

Education

University of Iowa

Juris Doctor (1988)

• Member, Journal of Corporation Law

Iowa State University

Bachelor of Business Administration (1985)

• College of Sciences & Humanities Dean’s List and Honors Program
• Phi Delta Theta National Education Foundation Scholarship

Representative Matters

• Won a defense verdict in jury trial in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri arising out of a motor vehicle accident.
• Won a summary judgment for client, a truck leasing company, based on agreement to limit insurance obligations as lessor.
• Won a summary judgment for client, a flight instruction company, based on educational malpractice doctrine.
• Persuaded an insurance company to issue a defense to the clients in a lawsuit arising out of the sale of their home. At issue was the applicability of the clients’
• homeowner’s policy to the transaction.
• Achieved the dismissal of a premises liability case against a client, a major airline, arising out of an incident that allegedly occurred mid-flight.
• Negotiated a five-figure settlement of claims alleging commercial real estate waste against a client in which the plaintiffs’ liquidated damages approached $1 million.
• Analyzed numerous layers of liability insurance coverage and fidelity bond coverage in connection with claims asserted against the officers and directors of a major federal credit union.
• Represented multiple plaintiffs in antitrust class actions in multi-district litigation.