LPP attorney Peter Syregelas recently won summary judgment in a case regarding insurance coverage under a series of Commercial General Liability (CGL) and Excess/Umbrella policies. Our client’s insured operated a series of grocery stores in Illinois and utilized a biometric handprint scanner for time tracking purposes. In a pair of […]

On behalf of an insurer client, LPP attorneys David Osborne and Peter Syregelas obtained summary judgment in an insurance coverage case arising out of a lawsuit alleging violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Protection Act (BIPA). The underlying lawsuit involved a BIPA claim for the insured’s (a restaurant chain) use […]

On behalf of an insurer client, Chris Pickett filed a breach of contract suit against the client’s insured for unpaid insurance premiums. In response, the insured filed a counterclaim against the insurer, claiming that it was owed additional monies from a prior insurance claim it had submitted for weather damage […]

Peter Syregelas: Obtained second summary judgment for insurer client on BIPA class action case where more than $30 million dollars in CGL and UMB coverage was at stake, extending favorable Illinois judgments in BIPA coverage cases. August 2022.

The underlying plaintiff alleged that her neighbor, the insured, had discharged septic waste from his property through a sewer pipe which flowed into the plaintiff’s lake, rendering her lake highly contaminated and no longer safe or viable for swimming or fishing. The United States District Court for the Southern District […]