Martha Kersey
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Member of CLM Since: 2010
CLM Committees
- Environmental and Toxic Tort
CLM Contributions
- Speaker - 2013 Claims College
- Speaker - 2014 Claims College
- Speaker - 2014 Claims College Sponsors and Faculty Registration
- Speaker - 2015 Annual Conference
- Speaker - 2015 Claims College
- Speaker - 2016 Annual Conference
- Speaker - 2016 Claims College
- Speaker - 2018 Claims College
- Speaker - 2020 Claims College
- Speaker - 2020 CLM Focus: Cannabis, Environmental, Insurance Fraud, Property, Subrogation, Claims and Litigation
- Speaker - 2021 Claims College
- Speaker - 2022 Claims College
- Speaker - 2023 Claims College
- Speaker - 2023 Litigation Management Institute
- Speaker - 2024 Litigation Management Institute
Articles
Practice Areas
- ADR
- Bad Faith
- Claims Management
- Class Action/Mass Torts
- Environmental
- Fraud / SIU
- Insurance Coverage
- Litigation Management
- Municipal Law
- Premises Liability
- Product Liability
- Professional Liability
- Property
- Reinsurance
- Subrogation
Biography
Martha is an insurance professional and Illinois licensed attorney with over 26 years of experience in Claims and Corporate Legal. Her past experience includes managing extra-contractual litigation and coverage for QBE on a Nationwide basis, handling litigated claims and coverage for Country Financial and Claims for State Farm as well as trial experience with Nally Haasis Jordan and Bauer. She authored Lexis Nexis -Chapter 18 of New Appleman on Insurance, Law Library Edition entitled Duty to Indemnify – Bodily Injury and Property Damage which was cited by the Wisconsin Supreme Court in Schinner v Gundrum, 349 Wis.2nd 529 ( June 2013). She has been a guest speaker for the Defense Research Institute, Alpha International and CLM. She is a past vice-president of the Champaign County Bar Association and past President of the East-Central Illinois Women Attorneys Association.
Education
- Advanced graduate work or PhD
Admissions/Licenses
- Bar Admissions: IL
- Licensed Adjuster: AL, NC, MS, CT, AR, KY, LA, MN, NH, TX, GA, OK, RI, UT, NV, MT, DE, FL, ME, MI, NM, SC, WV, WY