Attorney Profile
Todd Saranecki is a partner with Adler Murphy & McQuillen
LLP. He has significant experience in the
areas of aviation litigation, insurance and reinsurance coverage
litigation, and litigation of commercial disputes, and he has
litigated claims throughout the United States involving personal
injury, wrongful death, products liability, general tort matters,
property damage, cargo losses, commercial disputes, insurance
coverage, and subrogation.
As part of his aviation practice, Todd has successfully defended
aircraft owners, pilots, fixed base operators, maintenance
facilities, and product manufacturers in numerous lawsuits arising
from general aviation accidents. He also represents domestic and
foreign air carriers, as well as product manufacturers, in
connection with major accidents.
As part of his insurance practice, Todd has won favorable
resolutions for insurers in coverage actions (including related bad
faith actions) stemming from aviation, accidental death and
disability, and product liability policies. Notable successes
include obtaining a favorable settlement for a major domestic
insurer during trial in a dispute evolving from an HMO-managed care
plan, and successfully defeating plaintiffs' bad faith claims via
motion practice in consolidated multi-million dollar coverage
disputes in New York federal court, which prompted a favorable
settlement for his client on the eve of trial. Todd has also
successfully defended domestic insurers in both state and federal
courts throughout the United States against numerous coverage
actions arising from accidental death and disability policies, many
of which involved employer sponsored plans that implicated ERISA
preemption.
As part of his commercial litigation practice, Todd prosecutes
and defends business torts and sophisticated contractual disputes.
These disputes include the defense of an international corporation
and one of its employees in a lawsuit brought by the employee's
former employer alleging theft of trade secrets and breach of the
employee's non-compete contract. Following a multi-day evidentiary
hearing on the merits, Todd successfully thwarted the plaintiff's
efforts to obtain an injunction against the corporation and its
employee and dissolved the temporary restraining order that had
previously been entered against them.
Todd is an active member of the Chicago Bar Association's
Aviation, Insurance Coverage and Insurance Law committees and
served as a chairperson for its aviation Law Committee from
2015-2017. He is also a member of the Defense Research
Institute's Aviation, ERISA and Insurance Committees.
When not practicing law, Todd has served on the Board of
Directors for the McCormick Tribune YMCA in Logan Square since
2004. He is also the 2012 President of the Trade Masters Club for
Toastmasters International.