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Lynette Simmons Hoag has been an Illinois
Trial attorney for 17 years. She has litigated nearly 30 cases to
verdict in Cook County and the surrounding counties.
Educational
Background
In 1990, she graduated with honors from the University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor with a degree in Philosophy. In 1993 she graduated from the
University of Michigan Law School, in Ann Arbor. She was admitted to
the Illinois Bar and the Northern District of Illinois in the fall of
1993.
Career
Path
Ms. Hoag began her career at a moderate sized law firm in Chicago
specializing in the defense of product-liability, nursing home,
premises liability and personal injury cases. She then moved to a large
firm where she pursued landlords in matters where children had
sustained lead poisoning from their premises. Ms. Hoag also spent time
representing health care providers with disputed Medicare claims before
the Provider Reimbursement Review Board.
For more than ten years she worked in hard
fought insurance defense claims including suspected arson cases,
insurance coverage claims, suspicious theft losses, and disputed car
accidents. She conducted hundreds of depositions and dozens of
examinations under oath. In this position, she was introduced to
National Insurance Crime Bureaus' fraud indicators. Often unsuspecting
insureds unwittingly flag on their clam as suspicious by engaging in
activity that flags their claim for higher scrutiny by the insurance
company.
Other
Activities
Ms. Hoag has acted as an instructor to fire fighters seeking to become
Certified Fire Investigators (“CFI”) for both the International
Association of Arson Investigators (“IAAI”) and the National Institute
for Trial Advocacy ("NITA"). She is also an instructor at NITA.
Ms. Hoag knows the system and how to help
injured parties navigate the confusing claim process.
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