Peter Syregelas successfully defended our insurer client in a complex coverage dispute involving allegations under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Our client’s insured sought defense in a proposed class-action lawsuit brought by a former employee, who claimed that the company violated BIPA by collecting and distributing their biometric […]

Joe Postel and Brendan Ross, with the help of their insurer client, engineered a settlement of four related lawsuits simultaneously in federal court in Indianapolis.  Two construction defect suits were filed in Indiana state court against a builder insured by LPP’s client, each involving a different house and a different […]

Peter Syregelas recently obtained a summary judgment on behalf of the firm’s liability carrier client finding no duty to defend or indemnify a company accused of violating Illinois’s Biometric Information Protection Act (BIPA) when it required its employees to use a hand-scanning device to clock in and out of work. […]

Peter Syregelas recently obtained judgment in favor of our insurer client in the Southern District of Illinois.  In that case, Peter argued that there was no coverage for a claim of retaliatory discharge and violations of the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act under a Commercial Liability Insurance Policy, after […]

Peter Syregelas was engaged by a policyholder client to help secure insurance coverage for a claim of negligent hiring/retention after an employee of our client assaulted a customer at a large Las Vegas resort. Our client’s carriers took a no coverage position asserting the intentional conduct exclusion to their policies, […]