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Wayne S. Karbal

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    • Concentrates his practice primarily on insurance coverage matters involving an array of topics and issues in a variety of jurisdictions, both state and federal.
    • Background includes providing litigation and claim advice services to various clients with a focus on litigating legacy, long tail, and multi-year exposure claims concerning, among other things, asbestos, silica, talc, and other toxic tort claims, environmental claims, construction defect claims, and molestation claims.
    • Experienced with first party and personal lines policies as well as bad faith litigation associated with any of the above areas.
    • Has spoken at seminars and authored numerous monographs for insurance industry clients on multiple insurance coverage issues, including duty to defend, excess-primary insurer relationships, additional insured issues, allocation and trigger of coverage issues, aggregate limit issues, exhaustion issues, and completed operations and products liability coverage issues.
    • As a licensed dentist, he has used his background in the handling of dental and medical malpractice claims, as well as integrating his unique background into his primary practice.

Education

  • B.A. University of Michigan, 1983
  • D.D.S. Northwestern University, 1988
  • J.D. DePaul University College of Law, 1991
    – Assistant Casenotes Editor, Journal of Health and Hospital Law

Bar Admission

  • State of Illinois, 1991
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Membership

  • American Dental Association
  • American Bar Association
  • Chicago Bar Association