In a risk-shifting case for a firm insurer client, Peter Syregelas and Haley Loutfy obtained a favorable settlement after a separate carrier, which insured the subcontractor of our client’s named insured, wrongfully denied additional insured coverage. Upon receipt of the matter, our firm implored the denying insurer to recognize its duty to defend as […]

Chris Pickett and Haley Loutfy obtained summary judgment against an additional insured who voided coverage by violating the policy’s notice of suit condition. The case arose from a construction site injury involving a Plaintiff who sued multiple contractors, one of whom qualified as an additional insured on our client’s policy. After learning of the lawsuit […]

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.

Chris Pickett recently secured judgment on the pleadings in favor of their client, a CGL insurer.  At issue was a tender of defense from a putative additional insured general contractor for an underlying construction site injury.  The general contractor did have a written contract with our client’s named insured and […]

Chris Pickett: We successfully argued that an additional insured endorsement providing coverage when the “insured and such person have agreed in writing” did not apply unless there was a direct contract between the named insured and the putative additional insured.