Insurance Coverage & Bad Faith

Insurance Coverage & Bad Faith

Clarity in Coverage. Strength in Strategy.

Helping insurers evaluate, defend, and resolve complex coverage disputes.

Overview

Kightlinger & Gray serves as trusted counsel to insurance carriers throughout Indiana and Kentucky. Our attorneys handle a wide range of first- and third-party coverage issues, including extra-contractual and bad faith litigation.

We offer prompt, practical guidance on coverage opinions and policy interpretation and are prepared to aggressively defend against unfounded bad faith allegations in state and federal court.

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Attorneys Practicing
In This Area

Attorneys Practicing
In This Area

  • Yolanda Cardona Profile Pic
    Yolanda Cardona Profile Pic
    Yolanda Cardona

    Associate Partner

    Yolanda Cardona is a skilled litigator based in the Kightlinger & Gray Merrillville office, focusing on insurance coverage, bad faith, insurance defense, and civil litigation. She brings deep experience from her prior role as claim litigation counsel at a Fortune 50 insurance company, where she managed hundreds of cases involving premises liability and auto accidents, including catastrophic injury and wrongful death claims.

  • Pfenne P. Cantrell Profile Pic
    Pfenne P. Cantrell Profile Pic
    Pfenne P. Cantrell

    Senior Partner

    Based in the Indianapolis office of Kightlinger & Gray, Pfenne Cantrell handles complex litigation including Construction, Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith, Subrogation and Fire-related casualties, Product Liability, Securities, and Aviation cases. An economics major as an undergrad, Pfenne uses the knowledge and skills he learned to approach complex matters in a thorough, yet concise manner.

  • Michael Wroblewski Profile Pic
    Michael Wroblewski Profile Pic
    Michael Wroblewski

    Senior Partner

    Mike Wroblewski is an attorney in the Indianapolis office of Kightlinger & Gray, and serves as Chair of the firm’s Transportation Practice Group. He currently focuses his practice on defending individual and corporate clients in personal injury litigation. He routinely appears before State and Federal courts, and has been admitted to practice law in Indiana and Illinois. Mike has extensive jury and bench trial experience and has tried over 20 trials to verdict.  Mike is a member of various legal and professional organizations, including the Construction Lawyers Society of America (CLSA), and is an active member of the community.

  • Matthew E. Hobson Profile Picture
    Matthew E. Hobson Profile Picture

    Attorney

    Matthew Hobson is an associate attorney in Kightlinger & Gray’s Indianapolis office, concentrating his practice in worker’s compensation. Matthew comes to Kightlinger & Gray with significant experience in worker’s compensation defense. He also has previously practiced in commercial and insurance defense litigation, appeals, and corporate tax matters.

  • John H. Halstead Profile Pic
    John H. Halstead Profile Pic
    John H. Halstead

    Senior Partner

    John Halstead is an attorney in the Merrillville (northern Indiana) Kightlinger & Gray office with over 20 years’ experience representing insurance companies and their insureds in automobile, homeowner’s, and commercial liability claims, as well as self-insured businesses in premise liability and worker’s compensation defense. John also represents title companies and their insureds in title insurance and escrow claims, and local contractors in mechanic’s lien and construction litigation.

  • John B. Drummy Senior Partner Profile Picture
    John B. Drummy Senior Partner Profile Picture
    John B. Drummy

    Senior Partner

    John Drummy is a Senior Partner in the Kightlinger & Gray Indianapolis office and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. John is also a member of the firm’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Board. John is a skilled attorney with over 30 years of experience handling Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith, Professional Liability, Appellate, Data Breach and Securities Litigation matters. John has handled hundreds of appeals, with nearly 100 published opinions.

  • J. Todd Spurgeon Profile Pic
    J. Todd Spurgeon Profile Pic
    J. Todd Spurgeon

    Senior Partner

    Todd Spurgeon is a litigator with significant trial experience. He routinely appears in State and Federal courts, handling a wide range of insurance defense matters. Todd is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, which is only open to those with significant jury trial experience and high personal character and reputation. Todd is a board member of the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana, and is a past president of the Indiana State Bar Association.

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    Christopher R. Moon

    Attorney

    Christopher Moon is an associate attorney practicing in Kightlinger & Gray’s Indianapolis office. Being a born and bred Hoosier, Christopher attended the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University for his undergrad and stayed in Bloomington, IN to attend the Maurer School of Law.

  • Casey R. Stafford Profile Pic
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    Casey R. Stafford

    General Partner

    Casey Stafford is a General Partner in the Indianapolis office of Kightlinger & Gray. She focuses her practice on insurance defense matters, including Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith and Professional Liability, primarily focusing on the defense of insurance agents. Casey also handles Commercial Collections for small to medium size businesses. She is the Chair of the firm’s Coverage and Bad Faith practice group. She has mastered the art of early dispositive motions in Insurance Coverage matters and is a skilled trial lawyer.

  • Ashley N. Canan Profile Pic
    Ashley N. Canan Profile Pic
    Ashley N. Canan

    Attorney

    Ashley Canan is an associate in our Indianapolis office and joined the firm in 2021. Ashley’s prior experience includes interning with Lake County Prosecutor’s Office in the felony division, CLEO internship program with the Court of Appeals of Indiana, family law with a prestigious firm in Chicago, and working on the other side of defense work with plaintiff’s personal injury firms in Indianapolis.

  • Allyson K. Delgado Profile Pic
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    Allyson K. Delgado

    Attorney

    Allyson Delgado is an attorney in Kightlinger & Gray’s Merrillville, Indiana office. She joined Kightlinger & Gray in 2024 with civil litigation experience in, but not limited to the areas of transportation, insurance coverage litigation and employment.

Insurance Coverage &
Bad Faith Legal Services

Insurance Coverage & Bad Faith Legal Services

Coverage opinions and policy analysis
Declaratory judgment actions
Bad faith and extra-contractual defense
Reservation of rights and denial letters
Duty to defend and indemnify disputes
Excess exposure and contribution matters