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John K. Silk

Of Counsel

    • Focuses his practice on insurance coverage involving various areas of commercial and professional insurance.
    • Experience includes financial institutions, fidelity bonds, mortgage bankers and brokers liability, employment practices liability, professional liability, title agents, and directors’ and officers’ liability.
    • Practice has included coverage opinions, the drafting of policy wordings and endorsements, and coverage litigation.
    • Has conducted extensive claim investigations and negotiated claim settlements.
    • Practice has included the investigation and resolution of numerous complex bond claims involving financial institutions and commercial entities.
    • Has represented insurers’ interests in connection with a wide variety of professional liability claims, as well as various employment-related disputes, including claims of discrimination, harassment, and wrongful termination.

Education

  • B.A. Yale University, 1976
  • J.D. Indiana University School of Law, 1979
    – Member, Law Journal

Bar Admission

  • State of Indiana, 1979
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
  • State of Illinois, 1981
  • U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois

Membership

  • American Bar Association
    – Tort and Insurance Practice Section
  • Section’s Fidelity and Surety Committee and Professionals’, Officers’ and Directors’ Liability Committee