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完整简历
Smita Mokshagundam focuses her practice on insurance coverage counseling and litigation under primary, umbrella, and excess liability policies. She specializes in construction failure and biometric privacy claims. Her representative cases involve multi-million-dollar construction projects, "Me Too" litigation, environmental disasters, and intellectual property disputes. She has extensive experience in coverage analysis, position letter writing, and pre-suit claims resolution in areas such as products liability, toxic torts, construction defect, sex abuse, wrongful conviction, and additional insured issues.
Smita represents her insurance company clients in state and federal courts throughout the country. She has successfully resolved many high-profile matters in court and in alternative dispute resolution forums. She has built long-term relationships with leading insurance companies and represented those same clients for over fifteen years.
Admissions
- Illinois
- Wisconsin
- US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- US Court of Appeals for the Seventh and Ninth Circuits
Education
- J.D., University of Illinois College of Law, 2001
- B.A., with honors, University of Michigan, 1997
相关经验
- Secured summary judgment for insurer on applicability of asbestos exclusion to injuries sustained in industrial accident, which was affirmed on appeal.
- Prevailed on summary judgment with respect to application of "your product" exclusion and scope of real property exclusion as applied to underlying construction defect matter.
- Successfully defended clients against policy holder challenges to enforceability and applicability of arbitration provisions in liability policies.