With COVID-19 creating increased demand for insurance coverage work, Chicago’s Nicolaides Fink Thorpe Michaelides Sullivan expanded into Texas by hiring a group from Thompson Coe Cousins & Irons in Dallas.

The new Dallas office is led by partner Ellen Van Meir, who came from Thompson Coe along with Mariah Quiroz, who also joined as a partner, and associate Conor McCall. All three were onboard at the new office Monday.