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Monica T. Sullivan
Managing Partner
As managing partner and chair of the Executive Committee, Monica oversees the firm’s operations and strategic direction. In addition to her leadership role, she maintains an active insurance coverage practice focused on litigation and arbitration, advising an international client base on a broad range of matters, including pharmaceutical, environmental, construction, and product liability claims.
Monica’s diverse experience includes counseling clients on claims administration and policy analysis, as well as representing them in complex disputes involving commercial general liability, commercial litigation, risk management, managed care and healthcare, and professional liability.
She also brings extensive experience to the Bermuda market, having served as U.S. claims counsel to Bermuda insurers for over 30 years. In this capacity, she has managed arbitrations both domestically and internationally.
Beyond her litigation and coverage work, Monica regularly leads lectures and training seminars for claims and underwriting professionals, focusing on emerging insurance coverage issues, jurisdictional considerations, and best practices in claims handling.
Monica’s diverse experience includes counseling clients on claims administration and policy analysis, as well as representing them in complex disputes involving commercial general liability, commercial litigation, risk management, managed care and healthcare, and professional liability.
She also brings extensive experience to the Bermuda market, having served as U.S. claims counsel to Bermuda insurers for over 30 years. In this capacity, she has managed arbitrations both domestically and internationally.
Beyond her litigation and coverage work, Monica regularly leads lectures and training seminars for claims and underwriting professionals, focusing on emerging insurance coverage issues, jurisdictional considerations, and best practices in claims handling.
Simply put, our clients come first. We love untangling a complex coverage case and securing a successful result, whether through litigation, arbitration or negotiation. Our hard working team has a proven track record of favorable results.
Memberships
- American Bar Association
- American College of Coverage Counsel
- Chicago Bar Association
- Defense Research Institute
- Professional Liability Underwriting Society
Awards & Rankings
- Legal 500 Chicago Elite: Insurance Litigation, 2026
- Chambers USA, Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Insurer, 2020-2026
- Illinois Super Lawyers, 2019-2026
- Best Lawyers®, The Best Lawyers in America®, 2019-2027
- Best Lawyers®, Lawyer of the Year, 2023 and 2027
- Crain's Chicago Business, Crain's Notable Women in Law, 2024
- Best Lawyers®, Business Edition of Women in the Law, 2022
- Secured arbitration ruling favoring insurers in coverage dispute arising from pharmaceutical product liability.
- Negotiated favorable settlement in case involving numerous underlying class actions seeking recovery for third-party property damage from a Fortune 100 company.
- Represented several Bermuda insurers implicated in underlying actions arising from gadolinium-based contrast agents.
- Negotiated favorable settlement with Fortune 500 company over coverage for costs associated with a voluntary frozen food recall.
- Secured favorable rulings for insurers relative to underlying nursing home and healthcare cases, including class actions related to understaffing and patient care.
- Secured favorable coverage ruling for insurer in connection with injury and death claims against international trucking company.
- Negotiated favorable settlement during English court proceedings with a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company.
- Successfully represented insurer in coverage dispute involving insured's knowledge of risks associated with its birth-control product.
- Represented multiple Bermuda insurers in claims involving zinc-containing denture cream.
- Represented domestic insurer in coverage disputes involving pollution and remedial actions.
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- 2021-05-20
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- 2020-07-09
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- 2018-05-01
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- December 12, 2018
- 2017-08-01
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- 2017-01-23
- 2015-09-01
- 2014-12-08
ADDITIONAL SPEAKING & WRITING
- Presenter, "The Illusory Coverage Doctrine: Going Beyond the 'Plain Language' of the Policy," American College of Coverage Counsel's Annual Meeting, September 2021
- Panelist, American Bar Association’s (ABA) Tort Trial and Insurance (TIPS) Continuing Legal Education Seminar, January 2017
- "Legal Issues Arising Out of the Relationship Between Underwriters and Claims Personnel," CLM Chapter Event, Bermuda, November 2016
- "Bermuda Form Issues and Arbitration," Insurance Coverage & Practice Symposium in New York, New York, December 2014
- "Understanding the Bermuda Market," Continuing Legal Education, May 2013
- "Relevant Issues in Bermuda Form Pharma Claims," November 2012
- "Hot Topics in Insurance Coverage Law, Including Illinois Nuances," Continuing Legal Education, November 2011
- "Minimizing Ethical & Legal Tensions Between Insurer and Insured," Continuing Legal Education, April 2006