Rick Hammond

Rick Hammond is a Partner with Insurance Claims and Litigation Consultants, LLC, one of the most experienced and distinguished law firms in the state of Illinois, and with offices throughout the state including Chicago, Edwardsville, Crystal Lake, Springfield, Hammond, Indiana and St. Louis, Missouri. He serves as national counsel on matters relating to property insurance coverage, fire and explosion cases, bad faith, and as counsel to corporate executives, municipalities and elected officials on high-profile business litigation cases. He also serves as an expert witness on insurance law, bad faith and coverage issues, and he is an Adjunct Professor on Insurance Law at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

Previously Rick was the Assistant Deputy Director of the Illinois Department of Insurance’s Chicago office, and he held managerial positions in property claims and agency for two national insurance carriers, and as Executive Director and General Counsel for the Insurance Committee for Arson Control, a national insurance trade association.

Mr. Hammond is Past-President of the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel, formerly served on the faculty and Board of Directors of the Insurance School of Chicago, and he is a columnist for the International Association of Special Investigation Units’ (IASIU) magazine, "SIU Today." Rick is a member of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel and former Chair of their Property Insurance Law Section. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Coverage and Extra-Contractual Counsel and former Illinois State Representative of DRI.

Mr. Hammond serves on the Board of Trustees of Loyola University Chicago, and on the Board of Arrupe College of Loyola University. He was one of two attorneys in the country selected by the Lexis Nexis Insurance Law Center to receive its "Insurance Lawyer of the Year Award."