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Amanda Bushemi Buckley handles commercial general liability (CGL), professional liability, commercial auto, and bad faith matters for insurers. Her practice spans pre-litigation and coverage litigation nationwide, under primary/duty-to-defend, excess, and umbrella policies. She advises clients on coverage issues involving some of the most complex liability exposures confronting insurers, including malicious prosecution and wrongful conviction, sexual abuse and molestation, catastrophic injury and transportation losses, construction defects, and assault and battery, along with a broad range of other casualty, public entity, and professional liability exposures. She has also assisted clients in drafting and editing tailored policy forms and endorsement language to address product goals and claim trends and account for emerging case law across general liability and excess liability risks.

In addition, Amanda has prior experience serving as both coverage and monitoring counsel for cyber and privacy claims, technology Errors and Omissions (E&O), and online media and intellectual property claims, including in the London market.

Prior to joining the firm in 2014, Amanda practiced in Indianapolis, Indiana, focusing on insurance defense litigation. 

Representative Matters
  • Handled hundreds of childhood sexual abuse claims brought against various Catholic Dioceses throughout the nation, as well as the Boy Scouts, namely when states across the country began enacting “reviver statutes” allowing otherwise time-barred claims to proceed.
  • Represented insurers in a headline-grabbing hacking investigation involving allegations that Sony Pictures Entertainment's impending release of the movie The Interview made Sony the target of computer hacking, resulting in the release of sensitive corporate information.
  • Led clients in evaluating and resolving C.R. Bard’s thousands of medical device product liability claims involving pelvic mesh products and inferior vena cava filters. 
  • Conducted full review and rewrite of client’s indemnity-only Retained Limit coverage forms, which included the following: evaluating current forms alongside others in the market; assessing the interplay between each coverage part and corresponding exclusions and conditions; identifying concerns and issues with existing policy language based on prior claims, litigation files, and current trends; pinpointing inconsistencies in policy language and identifying definitions, conditions, exclusions, insuring agreements, endorsements, and other common policy forms that could benefit from revision or supplementation in order to ensure that the client’s goals are met and its obligations are clearly and unambiguously set forth; and drafting proposed modifications and additions to policy language.

Presentations

Cyber Terrorism; CLE Presentation, Chicago, Illinois (August 2016)

Publications

“Recent Developments in Architects and Engineers Claims,” DRI’s The Critical Path Construction Law Newsletter (October 26, 2017)

"Professional Liability Round Up" (January 2015)

"Recent Developments In Architects and Engineers Claims" (August 2014)

Practice Areas

Education

  • Indiana University Maurer School of Law, J.D. 2012
  • Indiana University, B.A. 2009

Memberships

  • Chicago Bar Association
  • Illinois State Bar Association
  • Justinian Society

Admissions

  • Illinois
  • Indiana
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana