ATLANTA, August 10, 2021 — Cozen O’Connor is pleased to announce that Alycen Moss, member of the Global Insurance Department and co-chair of the firm’s Property Insurance Group, has been named the 2021 recipient of the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel’s John Appleman Award. Each year the FDCC honors the substantive law section chair who has made the most outstanding contribution to the advancement of the FDCC’s educational goals through the work of his or her section. Presented annually since 1984, the award carries the name of the late John Alan Appleman, a distinguished and widely recognized insurance law scholar who served as president of the FDCC from 1950 to 1952. The recipient is chosen by the president based on the recommendation of the chair and vice chairs of the Projects and Objectives Committee. Within the FDCC, Moss is a vice chair of the Insurance Industry Institute Committee, the Professional Women’s Forum, the Bylaws & Resolutions Committee, the FedLife Committee, and the Membership Development and Retention Committee. She also sits on the Admissions Committee.

Moss is vice chair, office managing partner of the Atlanta office of Cozen O’Connor. She concentrates her practice in civil litigation, and she has extensive experience with matters pertaining to property and casualty coverage issues, and she also regularly litigates civil and commercial matters pertaining to transportation and logistics. Moss is the co-chair of the Insurance Coverage section and creator and chair of the Women Litigators section of the Georgia Defense Lawyers Association.  She is also a member of the Atlanta Bar Association, American Bar Association, State Bar of Georgia, Defense Research Institute, and Lawyers Club of Atlanta. Moss routinely participates in providing pro bono services through cooperation with the Georgia Legal Services Program.