On behalf of an insurer client, Chris Pickett filed a breach of contract suit against the client’s insured for unpaid insurance premiums. In response, the insured filed a counterclaim against the insurer, claiming that it was owed additional monies from a prior insurance claim it had submitted for weather damage […]

An updated Cook County Law Division General Administrative Order (“GAO”) went into effect on August 29, 2022. Significantly, the Order outlines new motion and court call policies that are inching us towards in-person hearings.  Thus, after years of Covid-related remote court hearings, Cook County is taking steps to re-open and […]

Peter Syregelas: Obtained second summary judgment for insurer client on BIPA class action case where more than $30 million dollars in CGL and UMB coverage was at stake, extending favorable Illinois judgments in BIPA coverage cases. August 2022.

Howard Trafman obtained a voluntary dismissal in favor of defendants in a wrongful death/survival lawsuit. A registered corporation, itself and in the name of its deceased employee, sued a trucking company and its driver. Plaintiff alleged that Defendants were operating a 2016 Kenworth Tandem truck while working at the accident […]

The underlying plaintiff alleged that her neighbor, the insured, had discharged septic waste from his property through a sewer pipe which flowed into the plaintiff’s lake, rendering her lake highly contaminated and no longer safe or viable for swimming or fishing. The United States District Court for the Southern District […]