Chris Pickett – The additional insured demanded defense and indemnity from our client totaling over $200,000 but failed to give notice of the underlying lawsuit for over a year.  The court granted our motion for summary judgment after finding that the delay violated the notice condition and voided coverage.

Chris Pickett: A building owner and manager tendered the defense of an underlying construction injury claim with a multi-million dollar settlement demand.  We argued that the companies did not qualify as additional insureds because the insured’s contract only required these companies to be named as additional insured on a certificate […]

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)