Peter Syregelas: Secured an insurance payout of approximately $4 million toward the settlement of a case for a class action for violations of FRCA after the insured completely reserved rights after uncovering a liberalization endorsement on a policy which offered coverage for liquidated damages under an earlier policy, and which […]

Joe Postel recently won summary judgment for our insurer client in a coverage case against Commonwealth Edison involving a dispute about the application of the horizontal exhaustion rule and whether an endorsement to our client’s excess policy provided for vertical exhaustion.  George Moyett, an electrician, was severely burned by electricity […]

Chris Pickett recently secured judgment on the pleadings in favor of their client, a CGL insurer.  At issue was a tender of defense from a putative additional insured general contractor for an underlying construction site injury.  The general contractor did have a written contract with our client’s named insured and […]

Peter Syregelas: Secured payment from insurer of approximately $3 million dollars to insured client, a major evangelical church, toward settlement of claims asserted by its former pastor and for defense fees incurred in an arbitration in the Christian Reconciliation Forum. August 2021.

Chris Pickett and David Osborne recently secured a significant win for insurers defending construction defect claims in Illinois under a reservations of rights.  Specifically, the Northern District of Illinois found in favor of the insurer-client, holding that it had the right to control the defense with its own panel counsel […]