David Osborne: No. 12 cv 8730, 2014 WL 259017 (N.D.Ill. Jan. 23, 2014) (obtained summary judgment for insurer client, holding that underlying $250,000 gold bullion theft loss was excluded under first-party employee dishonesty coverage)

David Osborne: Cause No. 08 CH 31295 (Cir. Ct. of Cook Co., IL) (successfully shifted entire additional insured burden from client, insurer for subcontractor charged with causing massive water intrusion, to additional insured landlord’s tenant adjacent to named insured’s work under theory that it failed to procure its own separate […]

ISO Blanket Additional Insured Endorsement – General Contractor Not An Additional Insured On Policy Issued To Sub-subcontractor, As Sub-subcontractor Had No Contract With General Contractor – Joe Postel: Westfield Ins. Co. v. FCL Bldrs., Inc., Circuit Court of Cook County, 407 Ill. App. 3d 730, 948 N.E.2d 115 (1st Dist. 2011)

Attorney Joe Postel won summary judgment for the Illinois Municipal League Risk Management Association (“the Association”) in a coverage dispute involving the absolute pollution exclusion. Sauk Village was a member of the Association’s self-insurance risk pool for Illinois municipalities between 2005 and 2010. During that time, according to a complaint filed […]

Joe Postel: Hartford Cas. Ins. Co. v. Construction Builders In Motion, Inc., 966 F.Supp.2d 777 (N.D. Ill. 2013)