Insurance Coverage Advice and Litigation
Our senior attorneys provide coverage advice to insurers, and are proficient in provoding our insurer clients with succinct yet thorough coverage opinions and analyses. Our coverage attorneys have litigated countless declaratory judgment matters on a cost-effective basis.
Defense Litigation, Arbitration and Mediation
Momkus McCluskey, LLC offers insurance defense litigation, arbitration and mediation in the following areas: Automobile, Construction, Municipal, Premises, Products Liability and Professionals.
Automobile
Momkus McCluskey, LLC attorneys have extensive experience in defending personal injury and property damage claims and lawsuits throughout the courts in Northern Illinois. Our attorneys have tried many automobile liability cases to verdict. Our attorneys also successfully advocate on behalf of insurers and insureds through arbitration and mediation proceedings. We also defend insurance carriers in uninsured and underinsured motorist claims and proceedings.
Construction
Momkus McCluskey, LLC attorneys handle all aspects of construction law and litigation, from delay claims, defect claims, personal injury claims, property damage claims, mechanic’s liens and breach of contract litigation. Our attorneys represent insurers and their insureds through advice and counseling, and through litigation in federal and state courts and alternative dispute forums.
Municipal
Momkus McCluskey, LLC attorneys have extensive experience in representing municipalities, municipal insurers and municipal risk pools in cases involving municipal law. Our attorneys have extensive trial and litigation experience in cases involving municipality litigation, and have proven defense experience in asserting defenses on behalf of municipalities, including those found in the Illinois Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act.
Premises
Our attorneys have wide-ranging experience in aggressively defending premises liability claims and suits brought against homeowners, as well as owners, operators and managers of commercial properties. Our attorneys have defended through trial many premises liability suits, including those alleging slip and falls, acts of negligent third parties, improper maintenance, negligent security, falling merchandise, lack of effective warning signs, inadequate security or lighting, and elevator and escalator injuries.
Products Liability
Momkus McCluskey, LLC attorneys have extensive experience in strategizing against, defending, managing and trying products liability cases in Illinois and throughout the United States. We also counsel and work closely with our clients to ensure that they have instituted proper internal practices and procedures to manage and minimize products liability risks. Our attorneys have experience in litigating and trying cases involving alleged breach of warranty and UCC, defective design, defective manufacture, and failure to warn.
Professionals
Our Insurance Litigation and Coverage practice includes the representation and defense of professionals in claim defense, litigation, mediation and arbitration. Our attorneys have decades of experience in defending architects and engineers, accountants, attorneys and other professionals against claims for breach of the relevant standard of care. Our defense of professionals against such claims and suits has included the successful defense of building design and construction defect claims, and claims associated with alleged malpractice by other Illinois professionals.
Appeals
Through strong research, writing and advocacy skills, our attorneys plan and execute the most efficient post-trial and appellate strategies for the benefit of our clients. The attorneys on our “Appeals Team” have extensive experience before the Supreme Court of Illinois, the Illinois Appellate Court districts throughout the state, as well as the United States Courts of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
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