LPP recently prevailed in the Illinois Appellate Court freeing our client from a case which alleged that it was liable for accepting the fruits of a fraud after our client purchased the assets of a company heading to bankruptcy in a UCC Article 9 Transaction from the near bankrupt firm’s […]

In this case, Josh Patrick represents a small “corner store” business whose premises were vandalized when a drunk driver drove into their store during business hours, violently striking a customer inside and causing her a closed head injury and several broken bones. The driver later pled guilty to felony DUI causing bodily […]

Peter Syregelas: Obtained judgment against a purported additional insured in Lake County, Illinois, based on failure of an incorporation clause in subcontract to obligate the naming of a landowner as an additional insured on insurer client’s policy. October 2022.

Howard Trafman: State court settlement. Edwards v. PNC. October 2022. 

In the first case, Plaintiff alleged that he slipped and fell on an unnatural accumulation of ice adjacent to a sump discharge line along a driveway, causing a significant leg fracture that Plaintiff claims prevented him from working and caused the demise of his construction business. We deposed the Plaintiff, […]