Peter Syregelas: Obtained summary judgment in Illinois on behalf of an insurer in an insurance coverage under commercial general liability and umbrella policies for dispute involving an underlying Biometric Information Protection Act case finding no duty to defend. First summary judgment granted on this type of case in favor of […]

Kate Crouch favorably resolved a substantial Cook County construction site injury lawsuit following several days of motions in limine and just prior to jury selection. The suit was brought by a subcontractor laborer whose hand was crushed by equipment owned and operated by LPP’s client (another subcontractor on-site). The impact […]

Joe Postel won judgment on the pleadings in which John Doe filed suit against Lindenhurst and its former police officer, alleging that the former officer sexually abused him while he was a minor and a participant in Lindenhurst’s police explorers program, and that Lindenhurst negligently failed to supervise the officer […]

Chris Pickett: Won summary judgment after the court declared that our client’s UM coverage was excess and could not be stacked with the primary UM coverage afforded on a State Farm policy to compensate plaintiff’s estate in fatal automobile accident.

Joe Postel won an important insurance coverage case for Acuity, involving coverage for a subcontractor, State Mechanical, faced with a construction defect lawsuit stemming from the remodeling of the Knickerbocker Hotel in downtown Chicago. Acuity and Selective Insurance insured State Mechanical in different policy periods. Selective defended State Mechanical and […]