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 […]

Peter Syregelas: Represented a major Chicago hospital in post trial proceedings following $53 million verdict in Cook County for child born with cerebral palsy and other health defects due to allegations of faulty prenatal and delivery care. Case settled for confidential sum well below jury verdict following the filing of […]

Steve Becker was awarded summary judgment on behalf of a developer and a general contractor, in the case of Botello v. Lexington Homes, LLC, et al., 2015 L 5620 (Cook County, IL). The plaintiff, an employee of a carpenter subcontractor (ACC, Inc.), was injured while trimming a 3rd-floor window of […]

Peter Syregelas: Represented a steel manufacturer in post-trial and appellate proceedings following a $34 million verdict in favor of a plaintiff injured in accident caused by driver of an intermodal transport company after jury found manufacturer, driver, and intermodal company in a joint venture.

The Illinois Appellate Court recently affirmed summary judgment in favor of an elderly homeowner in a bodily injury suit by a paid caretaker who claimed she slipped and fell in the insured’s garage as they were both getting out of the insured’s car. While the suit was pending, the homeowner […]