Andrea has significant experience representing insurers and reinsurers in complex insurance and health care disputes and arbitrations, primarily in the life and health insurance areas. She has deep experience representing plaintiffs and defendants in commercial litigation and arbitration matters.

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Andrea’s clients range from national health insurance companies to life reinsurance firms, frequently representing them in disputes involving breach of contract, fraud, and reinsurance treaty issues. She represents her clients as the plaintiff in complex matters, obtaining pre-trial settlements ranging from the multimillions to billions.

Andrea is the managing partner of the firm’s Chicago office.

  • Lead counsel regularly representing managed care organizations in arbitration, litigation, and pre-litigation disputes addressing alleged breaches of contract, statutory violations, out-of-network rate disputes, and fraud.
  • Counsel for managed care organizations providing strategic and regulatory advice regarding investigations, audits, and compliance issues impacting government-sponsored health plans, with a particular focus on Medicaid.
  • Frequently represents life reinsurance companies in disputes over reinsurance treaty issues.
  • Counseled a national health insurance company before state insurance departments and government agencies to secure approvals for a $17.3 billion transaction.
  • Obtained a panel order granting reformation of a life reinsurance treaty and damages for breach of contract.
  • Served as lead counsel for a defendant in a fraudulent transfer action, achieving summary judgment.
  • Secured a verdict as second chair in a bench trial for a plaintiff industrial services company in a breach of warranty case.
  • Assisted in obtaining a multimillion-dollar pre-trial settlement as the plaintiff in a lawsuit in a horizontal drilling products liability matter.
  • Chambers USA: Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Reinsurance, Illinois, “Up and Coming” (2025)
  • Crain’s Chicago Business, Notable Women in Law (2024)
  • Best Lawyers in America®: Health Care Law (2024-2026)
  • Super Lawyers® Illinois Rising Star, Civil Litigation (2019-2022)

Andrea’s clients range from national health insurance companies to life reinsurance firms, frequently representing them in disputes involving breach of contract, fraud, and reinsurance treaty issues. She represents her clients as the plaintiff in complex matters, obtaining pre-trial settlements ranging from the multimillions to billions.

Andrea is the managing partner of the firm’s Chicago office.

  • Lead counsel regularly representing managed care organizations in arbitration, litigation, and pre-litigation disputes addressing alleged breaches of contract, statutory violations, out-of-network rate disputes, and fraud.
  • Counsel for managed care organizations providing strategic and regulatory advice regarding investigations, audits, and compliance issues impacting government-sponsored health plans, with a particular focus on Medicaid.
  • Frequently represents life reinsurance companies in disputes over reinsurance treaty issues.
  • Counseled a national health insurance company before state insurance departments and government agencies to secure approvals for a $17.3 billion transaction.
  • Obtained a panel order granting reformation of a life reinsurance treaty and damages for breach of contract.
  • Served as lead counsel for a defendant in a fraudulent transfer action, achieving summary judgment.
  • Secured a verdict as second chair in a bench trial for a plaintiff industrial services company in a breach of warranty case.
  • Assisted in obtaining a multimillion-dollar pre-trial settlement as the plaintiff in a lawsuit in a horizontal drilling products liability matter.
  • Chambers USA: Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Reinsurance, Illinois, “Up and Coming” (2025)
  • Crain’s Chicago Business, Notable Women in Law (2024)
  • Best Lawyers in America®: Health Care Law (2024-2026)
  • Super Lawyers® Illinois Rising Star, Civil Litigation (2019-2022)
  • Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Education

  • Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., 2012, senior articles editor, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology; vice president, career development, Women Law Students Association; Mock Trial; Moot Court
  • University of Notre Dame, B.B.A., magna cum laude, 2007
  • University of Notre Dame, B.A., 2007, philosophy

Bar Admissions

  • Illinois
  • Texas

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin
  • U.S. District Court, District of Colorado
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas
  • Speaker, “Managed Care Litigation: Highlights and Trends,” AHLA Health Plan Law and Compliance Institute, May 16-17, 2024.
  • Speaker, “Not All Surprises Are Good – The No Surprises Act (Health),” IRES Foundation: National School on Market Regulation, April 21-23, 2024.
  • Speaker, “Select 2023 Medicare, Medicaid and Exchange Regulatory Updates,” Locke Lord, February 15, 2024.
  • Speaker, “2022 SCOTUS Decision in Dobbs vs Jackson Women’s Health Organization,” WTW Healthcare Risk Conference, July 19-21, 2023.
  • Speaker, “Health Care in a Post Dobbs America,” National Managed Care Institute, December 14, 2022.
  • Speaker, “Managed Care Arbitration Update,” AHLA Managed Care Arbitration Webinar, November 2, 2022.
  • Speaker, “Impact of the Dobbs Decision on Managed Care,” ABA National Managed Care Institute, October 12, 2022.
  • Speaker, “Mediation & Arbitration in Managed Care,” ABA National Managed Care Institute, December 9, 2021.
  • Co-author, “Dobbs and the Future of Health Plan Abortion Coverage,” Locke Lord QuickStudy, July 18, 2022.
  • Co-author, “No Surprises Act Update: Providers Receive Favorable Verdict Regarding Independent Dispute Resolution Process,” Locke Lord QuickStudy, February 25, 2022.