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As an accomplished attorney who has defended and counseled insureds and insurance company clients on hundreds of complex P&C, E&O, PL, D&O and EPL claims, Joyce has broad experience in developing and executing effective case resolution strategies, claim handling recommendations, and loss exposure analysis for claims pending in state and federal courts nationwide. She has significant experience litigating and arbitrating cases around the country, at both the trial and appellate level, including the defense of insureds. Joyce has represented both domestic and foreign insurers and reinsurers in complex insurance coverage and bad faith litigation and arbitration in jurisdictions across the United States, and regularly counsels insurers and reinsurers in connection with significant and novel claims and insurance policy coverage issues.
Joyce routinely advises and counsels senior management, of policyholders and insurance company clients, regarding claim evaluation, exposure potential, risk mitigation, coverage analyses and resolution strategy. She effectively implements budget and litigation expense efficiencies.
Joyce has also served as and directed outside insurance defense counsel on a wide spectrum of claims and issues to resolve cases within budget and below set loss reserves, to the great satisfaction of her clients and their policyholders. Her law practice has focused on the areas of professional liability, general liability, public entity liability, construction defect, employment practices liability, first party property, insurance coverage and reinsurance. Her professional liability practice emphasizes representing lawyers, agents, brokers, accountants, judges and other professionals, and their insurers, and encompasses individual risks as well as liability programs across the United States.
Through her experience, Joyce has developed a comprehensive arsenal of litigation and negotiation tools and strategies to resolve claims.
In addition, she has drafted and refined insurance policy forms, wordings and endorsements across various insurance product lines and has counseled her clients on a variety of wordings issues. Joyce is well-versed in a wide range of insurance wordings and regularly counsels clients on developing new forms and endorsements. She routinely advises underwriters, producers and business segments on insurance policy wordings and endorsements, manuscript changes and market issues.
Prior to law school, Joyce earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Northwestern University and worked as an Industrial Engineer with Eaton Corporation where she designed and implemented a multi-million dollar material handling system for an automotive parts plant. Upon graduation from law school, Joyce served a Judicial Clerkship with the Honorable William C. Lee of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.
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