Ms. Peterson served on the CGL Reporter
Editorial Board in 2004–2010. She summarized first-party property cases.
Ms. Peterson is a partner in the law firm of Kightlinger & Gray in
Indianapolis, where she serves as the leader of its Insurance Coverage and
Bad Faith Practice Group. Her practice areas include insurance coverage,
environmental, professional liability, bad faith, insurance defense, and
insurance law and regulation litigation. She is a member of the Indiana State
Bar Association, Litigation section, and the Defense Research Institute,
Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana, and the American Bar Association. She holds
the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter Society (CPCU) designation and
serves as a board member and president of the Central Indiana CPCU Chapter.
She is a chair-elect of the ABA's TIPS' Insurance Coverage Litigation
Committee and served as the program chair for its 2010 Midyear Program. Prior
to entering the legal profession, Ms. Peterson held underwriting and product
management positions at property-casualty insurance companies.
Ms. Peterson has presented at the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana
workshop "Legal Issues for the Business Owner," written
"Employment-Related Liability—The Insurer's Response" for the
Indiana Lawyer, and coauthored an article for the CPCU Claims
Quarterly. She led a discussion on "What's New in Insurance
Coverage—E&O Issues" at the 2005 ABA TIPS insurance coverage
seminar, presented "The CGL Insurance Policy—Legal Issues of Coverage
Determination" at the 2005 CPCU I–Day program in Indianapolis, and
moderated a panel on claim severability and rescission issues at the 2007 and
2008 ABA TIPS Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee seminars, respectively.
She also annually presents other Continuing Legal Education sessions on CGL
claim practices, insurance coverage, and insurance law.
Ms. Peterson received her BA degree, with highest distinction, from Purdue
University and her juris doctor from Indiana University School of
Law—Indianapolis.