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ALM EXPERTS: Midwestern Edition 2024 Claims Made
recognizes the proactive needs and urgency
of each unique case and is ready for direct CLAIMS HANDLING
consultation through phone (216) 266 - 7153 . Amy E. Johnson, JD
STANDARDS OF CARE HeplerBroom, LLC
(Please see our resume on page 94 for further 70 W . Madison Street, Suite
details.) 2600
Rick Hammond, J.D., Chicago, IL 60602
CLU Phone: (312) 205-7726
CLAIMS ANALYSIS Insurance Claims and E-mail: amy .johnson@
heplerbroom .com
Litigation Consultants, Web: http://www .heplerbroom .com
Amy E. Johnson, JD LLC Profile: Amy Johnson, JD, is a national expert
HeplerBroom, LLC Orland Park Executive Tower and insurance consultant, litigator, former
15255 South 94th Avenue, Suite 500
Chicago, IL Orland Park, IL 60462 Director, Property & Casualty Claims/Assistant
Phone: (312) 205-7726 Phone: (708) 428-6300 Claim Counsel at a national insurance
E-mail: amy .johnson@heplerbroom .com Cell: (312) 399-1717 company, and certified mediator, who provides
E-mail: rickhammond@ services and testimony on claims and lawsuits
(Please see our resume on page 103 for further insurancelawconsultants .com involving insurance coverage, bad faith, and
details.) Web: http://www .insurancelawconsultants . insurer customs and practices . Ms . Johnson’s
com experience extends across all layers of
coverage, including primary, umbrella, and
CLAIMS HANDLING Degrees/Licenses: Bachelor of Arts and excess, and all product lines, including third-
party general liability, errors & omissions,
Juris Doctorate
directors and officers, professional liability/
risk, builder’s risk, employment practices
Robert Hughes Associates, Inc. Profile: Rick Hammond, JD, CLU, is liability, first-party commercial property,
John Oakley the Principal of Insurance Claims and personal umbrella, surety bonds, and not-for-
Litigation Consultants, LLC, a consulting
Richardson, TX firm that provides expert witness services and profit healthcare liability. She also provides
Phone: (972) 980-0088 testimony on claims and lawsuits involving consultation on pre-suit and litigated coverage
E-mail: joakley@roberthughes .com insurance coverage, bad faith, agent-broker matters and claims, and training on how to
handle those claims .
liability, insurance regulatory issues and
(Please see our resume on page 110 for further insurance industry standards and its customs
details.) and practices . He also provides consultation Ms . Johnson has a distinguished background
and oversight of pre-suit and litigated and the experience to understand, evaluate,
and explain complex coverage issues, and
William J. Warfel, Ph.D., CPCU, coverage matters that potentially implicates address extra-contractual exposures faced
CLU allegations of statutory, common law or by carriers . She has a unique and effective
Professor of Insurance & Risk institutional insurer bad faith, and serves as approach to claim handling and strategy,
an arbitrator and mediator on cases involving
Management insurance coverage disputes . in order to facilitate resolution of claims, on
behalf of both the policyholder and the carrier .
Scott College of Business,
Indiana State University Mr . Hammond, has the unique experience Ms . Johnson’s experience has been
and the qualifications essential to understand,
Terre Haute, IN define and evaluate complex coverage issues developed over 25 years of insurance
Phone: (812) 237-2122 and extra contractual exposures that a carrier coverage expertise on first- and third-party
Cell: (812) 241-3185 may be facing, and to effectively use this liability insurance claims, high exposure and
E-mail: william .warfel@indstate .edu experience to offer pre-suit expert consultation complex claims, underwriting issues, and EXPERT CATEGORIES
and assist with effecting a resolution of hotly- claim handling, as a litigator and trial counsel
(Please see our complete listing under the contested claims . on coverage and bad faith cases in multiple
following area of expertise: Expert Categories: jurisdictions, Director, Property & Casualty
Property & Casualty Insurance) With more than 40 years of industry and legal Claims/Assistant Claim Counsel, author of
experience on a broad spectrum of insurance over numerous articles, and presenter and
speaker at insurance conferences across the
matters, from supervising claims, working country .
as a full-lines agent, serving as head of the
Illinois Department of Insurance’s Chicago
office, adjunct professor of insurance law, (Please see our resume on page 103 for further
details.)
executive director of a national insurance trade
association, litigating and trial of coverage
and bad faith cases in multiple states and
jurisdictions, authoring over 100 articles CLAIMS MADE
and treatises, to serving as the President
of the Illinois Association of Defense Trial
Counsel . Mr . Hammond can provide the inside Amy E. Johnson, JD
knowledge and properly analyze virtually HeplerBroom, LLC
every type of Insurance coverage issue and
bad faith exposure . In addition to expert Chicago, IL
testimony, he has been involved in a hundred Phone: (312) 205-7726
or more mediations and arbitrations, lectured E-mail: amy .johnson@heplerbroom .com
extensively, and authored numerous articles
and treatises on the subjects of insurance law (Please see our resume on page 103 for further
and coverage . details.)
(Please see our resume on page 100 for further
details.)

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