Full Profile
Charlotte Kormendy represents and counsels insurers in complex insurance coverage matters. Her experience includes analyzing coverage, finding creative solutions, and resolving intricate disputes between policyholders, claimants, and insurers including: additional insured and contractual indemnity, bad faith, Commercial General Liability (CGL), commercial crime and fidelity, Directors’ and Officers’ liability (D&O), professional liability, Errors and Omissions liability (E&O), Employment Practices Liability (EPL), advertising injury claims, as well as umbrella and excess policies.
Charlotte also has experience representing financial institutions in consumer financial services litigation. She has defended financial institutions in a variety of cases, including matters alleging violations of the Truth in Lending Act (TILA), Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), Real Estate Settlement Procedure Act (RESPA), as well as state unfair and deceptive acts or practices (UDAP) statutes and other consumer lending statutes and regulations. In addition, Charlotte’s experience encompasses all phases of litigation from motion practice through trial. Charlotte has handled state and federal appeals, and she has extensive experience representing clients in arbitration and mediation.
Admissions
- Illinois
- US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- US District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
- US District Court for the District of Colorado
- US District Court for the District of Wisconsin
- US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Education
- J.D., Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1998
- B.A., cum laude, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1995
Memberships
- Trial Bar, US District Court, Northern District Illinois
- Appointed to and served on Mothers Against Drunk Driving’s Illinois Advisory Board in 2015
- Filipino American Bar Association: Treasurer, 2003; Vice President, 2004; President, 2005-2006
Experience
- Represented primary and excess insurers in numerous matters involving commercial and personal liability.
- Represented insurers in bad faith litigation pending in various jurisdictions.
- Successfully represented insurer in an appeal of the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of insurer.
- Obtained summary judgment in favor of insurer for coverage dispute involving allegations related to the execution of an instrument.
- Obtained summary judgment in favor of insurer on the application of a negligent entrustment exclusion.
