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Claims Handling ALM EXPERTS: Midwestern Edition 2023
Real-World Forensic Engineering,
LLC CLAIMS HANDLING Amy E. Johnson, JD
Professor J. Rasty, PhD, PE, STANDARDS OF CARE HeplerBroom, LLC
MBA, CFEI, CFII - President & 70 W . Madison Street, Suite
CEO 2600
Lubbock, TX Rick Hammond, J.D., Chicago, IL 60602
Phone: (806) 773-7787 CLU Phone: (312) 205-7726
E-mail: stephanie@expertengineering .com, Insurance Claims and E-mail: amy .johnson@
jrasty@rwfei .com heplerbroom .com
Litigation Consultants, Web: http://www .heplerbroom .com
(Please see our resume on page 145 for further LLC
details.) Orland Park Executive Tower Profile: Amy Johnson, JD, is a national expert
15255 South 94th Avenue, Suite 500 and insurance consultant, litigator, former
Orland Park, IL 60462 Director, Property & Casualty Claims/Assistant
CLAIMS HANDLING Phone: (708) 428-6300 Claim Counsel at a national insurance
company, and certified mediator, who provides
Cell: (312) 399-1717
E-mail: rickhammond@ services and testimony on claims and lawsuits
insurancelawconsultants .com involving insurance coverage, bad faith, and
Robert Hughes Associates, Inc. Web: http://www .insurancelawconsultants . insurer customs and practices . Ms . Johnson’s
John Oakley com experience extends across all layers of
Richardson, TX coverage, including primary, umbrella, and
Phone: (972) 980-0088 Degrees/Licenses: Bachelor of Arts and excess, and all product lines, including third-
party general liability, errors & omissions,
E-mail: joakley@roberthughes .com Juris Doctorate
directors and officers, professional liability/
risk, builder’s risk, employment practices
(Please see our resume on page 146 for further Profile: Rick Hammond, JD, CLU, is liability, first-party commercial property,
details.) the Principal of Insurance Claims and personal umbrella, surety bonds, and not-for-
Litigation Consultants, LLC, a consulting profit healthcare liability. She also provides
William J. Warfel, Ph.D., CPCU, firm that provides expert witness services and consultation on pre-suit and litigated coverage
CLU testimony on claims and lawsuits involving matters and claims, and training on how to
Professor of Insurance & Risk insurance coverage, bad faith, agent-broker handle those claims .
liability, insurance regulatory issues and
Management insurance industry standards and its customs Ms . Johnson has a distinguished background
Scott College of Business, and practices . He also provides consultation and the experience to understand, evaluate,
Indiana State University and oversight of pre-suit and litigated and explain complex coverage issues, and
coverage matters that potentially implicates
Terre Haute, IN allegations of statutory, common law or address extra-contractual exposures faced
Phone: (812) 237-2122 institutional insurer bad faith, and serves as by carriers . She has a unique and effective
Cell: (812) 241-3185 an arbitrator and mediator on cases involving approach to claim handling and strategy,
E-mail: william .warfel@indstate .edu insurance coverage disputes . in order to facilitate resolution of claims, on
behalf of both the policyholder and the carrier .
(Please see our complete listing under the Mr . Hammond, has the unique experience
following area of expertise: Expert Categories: and the qualifications essential to understand, Ms . Johnson’s experience has been
Property & Casualty Insurance) define and evaluate complex coverage developed over 25 years of insurance
issues and extra contractual exposures that coverage expertise on first- and third-party
liability insurance claims, high exposure and
a carrier may be facing, and to effectively complex claims, underwriting issues, and
use this experience to offer pre-suit expert claim handling, as a litigator and trial counsel
consultation and assist with effecting a on coverage and bad faith cases in multiple
resolution of hotly-contested claims . jurisdictions, Director, Property & Casualty
Claims/Assistant Claim Counsel, author of
With more than 40 years of industry and legal over numerous articles, and presenter and
experience on a broad spectrum of insurance 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 137 for further
details.)
executive director of a national insurance trade
association, litigating and trial of coverage
and bad faith cases in multiple states and ProConsul Experts
jurisdictions, authoring over 100 articles Expert Witnesses in Multiple
and treatises, to serving as the President Technical and Medical Categories
of the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Local Experts, Nationwide
Counsel . Mr . Hammond can provide the inside
knowledge and properly analyze virtually Service
every type of Insurance coverage issue and LONG BEACH, CA
bad faith exposure . In addition to expert Phone: (800) 392-1119
testimony, he has been involved in a E-mail: expert@expertinfo .com
hundred or more mediations and arbitrations,
lectured extensively, and authored numerous (Please see our resume on page 143 for further
articles and treatises on the subjects of details.)
insurance law and coverage .
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details.)
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