“Carrie is a talented and pragmatic thought-partner who is both efficient and ready to fight at a moment's notice when needed.”
Chambers USA, Chambers and Partners, 2025
“Carrie is a talented and pragmatic thought-partner who is both efficient and ready to fight at a moment's notice when needed.”
Chambers USA, Chambers and Partners, 2025
Carrie DiCanio is a partner in the Insurance Recovery Practice Group in Haynes Boone’s Denver and New York offices.
Carrie has been ranked by Chambers USA, Chambers and Partners, as Band 1 in insurance since 2024. Clients report to Chambers that Carrie is “excellent,” “one of the top policyholder side coverage attorneys,” “a pleasure to work with,” “always extremely helpful and very responsive,” and “extremely knowledgeable.” Carrie’s clients also say that “her client service skills are superb. She is a real partner in protecting the legal interests of my company.”
Carrie’s insurance recovery practice focuses on complex financial matters and especially claims involving representations and warranties, directors and officers, and crime insurance. Carrie has successfully represented multiple policyholder clients in arbitrations involving representations and warranties insurance coverage for loss arising from breaches of financial statements representations, which called for the application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). Carrie also has advised policyholder clients with respect to claims under errors and omissions, commercial general liability, property, employment practices liability, cyber, and marine cargo insurance policies.
Carrie focuses on helping her clients mitigate financial and reputational risk at the early stages of crisis management. Her litigation experience includes disputes involving business valuation, commercial fraud, anti-competition, environmental liability, product liability and other high stakes matters.
Carrie regularly writes and speaks about current topics in insurance and insurance coverage litigation. She has been quoted in the media on trends in representations and warranties insurance. For more than a decade, Carrie has authored a chapter in the treatise Litigating Mass Tort Cases focusing on insurance coverage for the defense of mass tort claims such as those involving asbestos and environmental remediation. Carrie also has authored amicus curiae briefs on behalf of the non-profit United Policyholders, including that submitted in the landmark case of Bi-Economy Inc. v. Harleysville Ins. Co., 886 N.E.2d 127 (N.Y. 2008).
Previously, Carrie was the managing partner of the Denver office of a renowned insurance coverage law firm. In her free time, Carrie enjoys skiing with her husband and two sons, who are competitive alpine racers. She also enjoys hiking with her two labrador retrievers.
Representations and Warranties
Directors and Officers
Crime
Cyber
Commercial General Liability
Errors and Omissions
EPL
Marine Cargo
Environmental
Product Liability
Property Damage
Antitrust & Securities
Some of these representations were handled by Carrie prior to joining Haynes Boone.
Publications:
Speaking Engagements:
Education
J.D., Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Editor-in-Chief, Cardozo Law Review
B.A., History, Vassar College, with Honors
Clerkships
Intern to the Honorable Patty Shwartz, U.S. Magistrate Judge for the District of New Jersey, 2005
Admissions
Colorado
New York
Court Admissions
U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Haynes Boone Insurance Recovery Section Adds Partner Carrie DiCanio in Denver and New York
June 16, 2025