David Osborne: 384 Ill.App.3d 1081, 973 N.E.2d 1085 (Table) (1st Dist. 2008) (jury verdict in favor of hospital and ER doctor clients affirmed in complex wrongful death failure to diagnose case)

David Osborne: 07 cv 4454, 2008 WL 3286986, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 60444 (N.D.Ill. Aug. 8, 2008) (obtained summary judgment applying business risk exclusions j(5) and j(6) in favor of client, finding no duty to defend or indemnify contractor in building collapse case)

David Osborne: 02 MR 433 (Cir. Ct. Sangamon Co., Ill. July 14, 2008) (obtained summary judgment on behalf of insurer client against influential Southern Illinois law firm in $3.7 million case, holding no duty to defend or indemnify legal malpractice claim based upon structured settlement scheme)

David Osborne: 384 Ill.App.3d 806, 893 N.E.2d 949 (1st Dist. 2008) (authored amicus curiae Brief on behalf of the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel regarding new jury instruction; verdict for defendant affirmed, argument against jury instruction later accepted by the Illinois Supreme Court in Studt, supra)

Howard Trafman obtained a not liable defense verdict in favor of the defendant driver in a motor vehicle versus pedestrian accident.  The defense successfully argued that Plaintiff was intoxicated when she attempted to cross the street, failed to yield the right of way to a moving vehicle, and saw the […]