Amy P. Klie
Partner
Biography
BIOGRAPHY
Amy has more than 20 years of experience in commercial litigation with an emphasis on insurance coverage. Amy manages complex matters for insurers nationwide.
She has litigated a wide range of claims, including those with respect to the following focus areas:
She has litigated a wide range of claims, including those with respect to the following focus areas:
- Environmental
- Product Defects
- Construction Defects
- Sexual Harassment and Misconduct
- Personal and Advertising Injury
- Directors & Officers Liability
- Bad Faith
- Appeals
Memberships
- Illinois Bar Association
- New York Bar Association
Before Nicolaides
Before joining the firm, Amy was special counsel at a Chicago insurance coverage firm, where she concentrated her practice in coverage litigation. Previously, Amy practiced law in New York, where she engaged in general commercial litigation, focusing on commercial contract disputes and commercial bankruptcy. Amy began her legal career as an Assistant Attorney General in the Office of the Illinois Attorney General.
Outside Nicolaides
Amy enjoys cooking for friends and family, travel, hiking, and visiting museums. She also tries to get in a good book or two whenever she can.
EXPERIENCE
- Provided coverage valuation and successfully resolved coverage dispute arising from an EPA enforcement action, seeking remediation costs in connection with asbestos contamination attributed to the insured's allegedly improper removal and disposal of concrete asbestos pipe.
- Obtained favorable, unanimous decision from arbitral panel finding no coverage for $25 million claim for alleged "property damage" to coke oven batteries.
- Secured summary judgment finding no "advertising injury" coverage for patent infringement claim.
- Obtained summary judgment for insurer on basis that CGL policies provided no coverage for series of class-action antitrust and price-fixing lawsuits against insured, persuading court to reject argument that lawsuits involved "personal injury and advertising injury."
- Secured summary judgment finding no advertising injury coverage for a patent infringement claim involving an automated telephone system used to sell insured's products.