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Margaret A. Reetz
"I work with clients who develop innovative products for their clients. This drives me to develop innovative strategies for enhancing our client’s services and products. If a dispute does arise, both client and lawyer are keen to put their creative energies to the test so that a resolution can be achieved in a manner both professional and productive. The diversity of the risks serves to enhance the skills employed to achieve such optimal results."
Direct Line: (312) 261-4555
e-mail: mreetz@kpfplaw.com
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Experience Highlights
Peggy brings twenty years’ worth of experience in the insurance and commercial dispute fields. With a concentration in complex and novel risk and loss control issues, Peggy has a broad range of skills and experience in advising clients to keep pace with a fast-changing commercial landscape. Peggy represents technology/media clients and insurers, property and casualty insurers and reinsurers and self-insured entities. She has advised clients through the full range of risk and loss control issues: from the trial and appellate environment; to commercial negotiations and alternative dispute resolution settings; to the examination of claims and loss processing controls on an organizational level.
Legal Expertise
Before joining KFP, Peggy was associated with a well established international law firm. Her practice primarily focused on technology/media professional liability issues and reinsurance dispute and risk analysis. Previously, as a Manager in the Claims Consulting Group of Ernst & Young’s Actuarial Practice, Peggy worked for Fortune 500 Companies, self-insured, insurer and reinsurer clients. This experience was highlighted by a five-month post at a reinsurer in Australia. Early in her career, while associated with a prominent national insurance law firm, she defended clients in premises and product liability matters; litigated large, complex insurance coverage and reinsurance coverage disputes; and, represented international reinsurers in response to asbestos, pollution and health hazard loss matters.
Education and Achievements
Peggy is the co-author of Reinsurance Claims (Reactions Publishing, 2004). Peggy also has appeared in Best’s Review regarding technology liability matters and author of several legal updates for clients on technology and insurance coverage matters.
Peggy is a member of a number of professional organizations, including the American Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association.
Peggy graduated from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Economics) in 1983. She received her J.D. degree from DePaul University College of Law in 1986. Peggy is admitted to practice in Illinois, New York and California.
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