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April 17

What Can You Do When Your Insurance Claim is Denied?

Chicago Insurance Consultant Lawyer Getting into an accident when it wasn’t your fault can be terrifying. However, running through a checklist of what you need to do can be helpful, especially before you file an insurance claim. You notified your own insurance company, filed a report with the poli...

January 12

How to Protect Yourself Against Sexual Assault

Insurance Claim Lawyer Sexual assault can happen to anyone, no matter what age, gender, sexual orientation, economic status or race. If someone made you feel violated or threatened with sexual acts, please remember that it is not your fault. Regardless of what you are wearing or what you are drinkin...

August 16

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Date: August 16, 2018
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Cyber security risks and available insurance coverage

Concern over cyber threats to businesses is on the rise due to an ever changing technological atmosphere which has allowed for greater accessibility between businesses and their clients. With many businesses offering cloud based data centers which store important and often confidential documents o...

July 20

Partners Michael Childress and Andrew Plunkett Selected to Super Lawyers List for 2018!

Our very own Michael Childress and Andrew Plunkett have once again been nominated for the Super Lawyers List for 2018! Each year, Super Lawyers recognizes the top lawyers in Illinois via a patented multiphase selection process involving peer nomination, independent research and peer evaluation. Th...

July 08

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Date: July 8, 2018
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10 Things Every Condominium Owner Needs to Know

10 Tips to Get a Good Property Settlement from your Insurance Company. These 10 tips are exactly that, and, of course, your own situation may require greater emphasis on some of these tips than others. Hopefully, with these tips in mind, the claims process will be rewarding for you....

April 29

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Tags: Claims adjuster, Financial services, Insurance, Maintenance repair and operations, Oklahoma, Photograph, Plaintiff
Date: April 29, 2018
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Expediting tornado claims. Best practices for mitigating risks pre and post loss.

In order to be truly prepared after a natural disaster contact Childress Loucks & Plunkett immediately following the event of loss. We are an independent, unbiased ally when disaster strikes. We are not adjusters! We are insurance experts (as well as attorneys) who investigate and manage you...

April 21

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Tags: Drought, Extreme weather, Global warming, Greenhouse gas
Date: April 21, 2018
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Drought and climate change: their combined impact on regional precipitation

No matter what one’s belief may be regarding the validity of climate change one thing is for certain, we are already feeling its impacts in various forms. Perhaps the most relevant and immediate impact of a warming planet has been the recent, prolonged drop in precipitation levels in some areas ...

April 17

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Date: April 17, 2018
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Tornado season is here. Time to review your insurance policies’ coverage and limits.

Tornado season is right around the corner here in the United States. May and June are typically the most active months of the year for tornado genesis across the Great Plains. Tornado Alley, as the nickname goes, sees a very large number of super cell thunderstorms which are perfect producers of...

April 16

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Date: April 16, 2018
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Keys to recovering your insurance benefits after a disaster

We live in an age of disasters. Devastation to manufacturing facilities by fires, tornados, explosions, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc., is now commonplace. So, you have sought to protect your business with an expensive insurance program. While it is hard to predict when and how a ca...

April 14

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Date: April 14, 2018
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Manufacturers and the changing environmental landscape: Beware

The growing awareness in the United States regarding carbon emissions and their effect on the environment and weather patterns, have produced an increase in environmental litigation and some important decisions from the United States Supreme Court. Many states and environmental groups have filed law...

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