Nicole Stover focuses her practice on employment and insurance services.
Nicole regularly represents employers and key executives with regard to employment transition matters in connection with mergers, acquisitions, and other reorganizations, including development of transition strategy, negotiation of severance compensation and benefits, human resources due diligence, and WARN Act requirements and implementation.
Nicole also advises clients in connection with the development and implementation of human resources policies and procedures, with a concentration on the representation of management with regard to employment matters under Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), and related state and local laws. In addition to acting in an employment counseling capacity, she conducts internal investigations and litigates employment discrimination, non-competition and wage payment claims in proceedings before federal and state courts and administrative agencies.
Nicole also regularly advises clients in connection with complex insurance coverage matters, with an emphasis on claims under fidelity bonds and policies, including financial institution bonds, commercial crime insurance, and other proprietary bond forms and policies. She has authored numerous publications and presentations discussing trends in insurance coverage, including the following book chapters: “Insuring Agreement (B): On Premises Coverage,” Financial Institution Bonds (4th Ed. 2016); “Exclusions Other Than Inventory Loss,” Annotated Commercial Crime Insurance Policy (2015); and “Limit of Insurance,” Commercial Crime Insurance Coverage (2014).
Nicole served as editor-in-chief of the Penn State Law Review, which was founded in 1897 and is one of the oldest continually published law school journals in the country. She is also a member of the Woolsack Honor Society.