On July 19, 2024, 2023 Illinois House Bill No. 4351 adopted amendments to 735 ILCS 5/2-202.  This statute concerns service and special process servers retained by the parties.  HB 4351 changed the statute such that in addition to effectuating service by a sheriff or a coroner, now a process server […]

In a July opinion, the Illinois Appellate Court for the Second District upheld summary judgment for the defendant general contractor, holding that where the employee of a subcontractor is injured, the general contractor does not owe that employee a duty of care unless it enforced actual control over the subcontractor’s […]

Peter Syregelas successfully defended our insurer client in a complex coverage dispute involving allegations under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Our client’s insured sought defense in a proposed class-action lawsuit brought by a former employee, who claimed that the company violated BIPA by collecting and distributing their biometric […]

In our firm’s first foray into Cook County’s mandatory arbitration program for Law Division cases, partner Kate Crouch obtained a defense verdict in favor of our client.  The case at bar involved an accident between a cyclist and a driver who left work to pick up refreshments for herself and […]

Joe Postel and Brendan Ross, with the help of their insurer client, engineered a settlement of four related lawsuits simultaneously in federal court in Indianapolis.  Two construction defect suits were filed in Indiana state court against a builder insured by LPP’s client, each involving a different house and a different […]