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Dena Economou

Member

    • Represented domestic and overseas insurers for over three decades.
    • Focuses on complex coverage litigation, involving environmental and asbestos claims and litigation (and related bankruptcy matters), and in health hazard, toxic tort, products liability, catastrophic injury/damage, additional insured, construction defect, sexual molestation, wrongful conviction, workers’ compensation and employers’ liability, professional liability, advertising and personal injury coverage matters.
    • Represented insurers involved in various personal lines coverage disputes, including homeowners’ and automobile liability issues.
    • A track record of successfully representing insurers involved in litigation to collect substantial retrospective premiums.
    • Litigation of bad faith and other extra-contractual exposures.
    • Presents training workshops on the myriad coverage and other issues facing the insurance industry.
    • Recognized as a “Super Lawyer” by Illinois Super Lawyers® magazine for seventeen consecutive years, 2008-2024.
    • Fellow of the American College of Coverage Counsel.
    • Served as an Adjunct Professor of Business Law at The Illinois Institute of Technology.

Education

  • B.B.A. Loyola University, 1988
  • J.D. & M.B.A. The Illinois Institute of Technology/Chicago-Kent College of Law, 1991
    – Member, Moot Court Society

Bar Admission

  • State of Illinois, 1991
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit