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Property Loss Research
Bureau
Liability Insurance Research Bureau
Contact: Hugh Strawn
630-724-2230
Date: April 3, 2012
Sonia Copeskey, J.D.,
joins PLRB as Database Counsel
Property Loss Research Bureau
Ann Piccininni, staff writer
Property Loss Research Bureau
Downers Grove
–Attorney Sonia Copeskey recently jointed the Property Loss Research Bureau, a
nonprofit organization that serves the insurance industry, as database counsel,
a newly created position. She most
recently served as a contract attorney at Allstate Insurance, where she was
employed for four and a half years.
Sonia
Copeskey, J.D.
PLRB Database Counsel
Working in
Allstate's protection law department, Copeskey did compliance and risk
assessment assignments and was a member of the employment benefits team. She said insurance law is a dynamic
specialization that requires frequent reviews of case law and new
developments. “It’s really become a
niche. It’s constantly changing,” Copeskey noted.
As database
counsel, Copeskey will review and update the PLRB case law database so that
members can access the most up-to-date legal information relevant to their
ongoing claims.
Copeskey is a
2007 graduate of The John Marshall Law School. She graduated from Marquette
University in 2003 with an English and political science double major and a
minor in Spanish.
While at John
Marshall, she served on the John Marshall Law Review. She also was an intern and law clerk for the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Chicago, where she worked on
the creation of a Medicaid anti-fraud program.
Copeskey said
she looks forward to working with the PLRB database and PLRB members. “As a trade association, we’re working with
all the insurance companies. I feel like PLRB is at the forefront of the
industry,” she said.
Copeskey
lives in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago with her husband.
The Liability
Insurance Research Bureau, an association affiliated with the PLRB, also
recently hired a database counsel, Matt Kohnke.
He will be working with the LIRB coverage database.
The
Property Loss Research Bureau and the Liability Insurance Research Bureau are
not-for-profit associations of property and casualty insurance companies.
They are located in Downers Grove, Illinois.
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