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, 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 […]

Chris Pickett 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 […]

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, […]