Chris Pickett, Brendan Ross, and Jake Beaupre secured summary judgment after the court held that its client did not owe a duty to defend or indemnify a pair of defendants in an underlying construction site injury case. The defendants argued they were entitled to additional insured coverage on our client’s […]

This week, Joe Postel secured a highly favorable decision for our insurer client. This order came in a Coles County lawsuit where the plaintiff alleges significant bodily injury after the car in which he was riding as a passenger struck a tractor-trailer parked on the side of the road, but the […]

This week, Brendan Ross and Lizzie Jedrasek obtained summary judgment in a declaratory judgment action involving two personal injury lawsuits arising from a second-story deck collapse at a rental property. The court held that our client had no duty to defend or indemnify the insured property management company due to […]

Jacob Beaupre recently obtained summary judgment in the Southern District of Illinois in a federal declaratory judgment action that arose from an underlying lawsuit alleging violations of the Residential Real Property Disclosure Act. In granting our motion, the Court held that the insured attempted to conceal the property’s defects from […]

Last month, Peter Syregelas won summary judgment on behalf of a firm insurer client after a long dispute with our client’s insured regarding coverage for an underlying class action alleging employer violations of Illinois’s Biometric Information Protection Act (“BIPA”). The case was briefed over two years ago, but decision was […]