Marie L. VanDam

Marie VanDam is a Partner in the Firm’s Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith and Commercial Litigation practice groups. She represents insurers in complex coverage disputes involving environmental, mass tort, professional and healthcare liability, product liability, and construction defect claims in state and federal courts across the country, as well as in alternative dispute resolution proceedings. Marie advises insurers on a broad range of coverage issues under general liability, umbrella and excess, professional liability and pollution legal liability policies. She has represented insurers in matters involving environmental releases, sports concussion claims, sexual misconduct claims, and claims involving exposure to benzene, glyphosate and PFAS.

Marie also serves as national coordinating counsel for clients engaged in asbestos litigation across the country.

Before joining the Firm, Marie litigated a wide range of product liability, premises liability, wrongful death, commercial auto liability and insurance defense matters in courts throughout Illinois and Indiana. She has chaired more than 25 jury and bench trials in Cook County, Illinois and Indiana state courts.