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)

David Osborne: Cause No. 09 CH 51473 (Cir. Ct. of Cook Co., IL Jan. 9, 2013) (obtained summary judgment and dismissal of opponent’s counterclaim, finding opposing insurer estopped for wrongfully refusing to defend mutual insured and shifting entire defense and indemnity burden to opposing insurer, rejecting fraud counterclaim as a […]

David Osborne: 1 REL 2001 (Comm. Ct. Penn. Oct. 2, 2012) (successfully litigated and negotiated $3.6 million cut-through relief for hospital client from reinsurer where insurer was insolvent, despite lack of any explicit cut-through clause in the reinsurance contract)