Partner

Christine is a partner in the Chicago office of SmithAmundsen where she practices in the firm’s Insurance Services Group. Christine concentrates her practice on personal, commercial, and professional lines of insurance, as well as extra-contractual/bad faith claims. Christine has handled coverage matters in the areas of automobile liability, uninsured/underinsured motorists, homeowners, business liability, medical malpractice, construction, environmental, and toxic tort. Christine’s practice involves providing coverage opinions to insurance companies on various issues, negotiating coverage disputes with insureds, and handling all aspects of litigating actions on behalf of insurance companies and their representatives. She has represented the interests of insurance companies, their employees, and independent insurance agents.

Christine also handles insurance coverage matters in the transportation industry. She routinely counsels trucking companies and their insurers in negotiating coverage issues and litigating declaratory judgment actions. Additionally, Christine provides counsel to clients with respect to contractual indemnification issues and has represented the interests of parties in both seeking and contesting indemnification from others.

Christine is licensed to practice in Illinois, the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Central Districts of Illinois, and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. She also has been admitted to practice pro hac vice in several other jurisdictions.

Christine has been selected by her peers for inclusion in the 2012 Illinois Super Lawyers© magazine list of "Rising Stars*" in Illinois.

*The selection of attorneys to the Rising Stars list does not guarantee a positive client outcome in any specific legal matter or engagement nor constitute a representation by the firm of SmithAmundsen about the caliber of legal work performed by any other attorney not selected as part of this list.