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, […]

In a risk-shifting case for a firm insurer client, Peter Syregelas and Haley Loutfy obtained a favorable settlement after a separate carrier, which insured the subcontractor of our client’s named insured, wrongfully denied additional insured coverage. Upon receipt of the matter, our firm implored the denying insurer to recognize its duty to defend as […]

Peter Syregelas defended a summary judgment he obtained in the circuit court of Cook County which found that an insured’s vehicle was not covered under her insurance policy and the insurer did not have a duty to defend or indemnify her for damage she caused to another vehicle. Peter fended off […]

Plaintiffs, as beneficiaries of an estate, filed a complaint against LPP’s client for a declaration that it wrongfully declined decedent’s life insurance policy application and therefore owed proceeds following his death only days after submitting the application. Plaintiffs also sought bad faith damages in connection with the insurer’s declination. Peter Syregelas and Haley […]