LPP Partner Howard Trafman and Senior Counsel Steve Schuetz just secured a not guilty verdict following a two-week trial in Cook County. In addition to the challenging venue, our trial team was up against one of the most formidable plaintiff’s firms in Chicago. Please read on to learn more about the case […]

Chris Pickett  and Brendan Ross secured summary judgment after the court held that its client did not owe a duty to defend or indemnify a pair of defendants in an underlying construction site injury case. The defendants argued they were entitled to additional insured coverage on our client’s commercial general […]

This week, Joe Postel secured a highly favorable decision for our insurer client. This order came in a Coles County lawsuit where the plaintiff alleges significant bodily injury after the car in which he was riding as a passenger struck a tractor-trailer parked on the side of the road, but the […]

This week, Brendan Ross and Lizzie Jedrasek obtained summary judgment in a declaratory judgment action involving two personal injury lawsuits arising from a second-story deck collapse at a rental property. The court held that our client had no duty to defend or indemnify the insured property management company due to […]

An in-depth investigation at the outset of an assignment always pays off, and Howard Trafman and Steve Schuetz certainly demonstrated this in a recent multi-party product liability case in Cook County, Illinois. Plaintiff was allegedly injured after the lift machine he was using at work to pick products from store […]