Peter Syregelas secured summary judgment for our insurer client in a breach of contract action filed by the former operator of a Chicago brewery. The shuttered brewery sought nearly $500,000 in property damage and business personal property losses stemming from a January 14, 2022 flood at its facility. Our client […]

We are pleased to announce a major litigation victory secured by our coverage team in the Northern District of Illinois. On November 21, 2025, Judge Elaine Bucklo granted our client’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, conclusively resolving the federal declaratory-judgment action in our client’s favor. The underlying suit was […]

Chris Pickett  and Brendan Ross 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 commercial general […]

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 […]