Joe Postel and Peter Syregelas recently obtained judgment on the pleadings in a coverage dispute pending in federal court. RLI issued a personal umbrella policy to the owner of a business, while Acuity issued a commercial auto and commercial excess policy to the business.  The business owner was driving his […]

Peter Syregelas: Secured insurer contributions of approximately $300,000 toward the defense fees and indemnity paid out by insured for settlement of an action alleging violations of the City of Chicago Renting Ordinance from two insurers. January 2022.

Peter Syregelas: Secured an insurance payout of approximately $4 million toward the settlement of a case for a class action for violations of FRCA after the insured completely reserved rights after uncovering a liberalization endorsement on a policy which offered coverage for liquidated damages under an earlier policy, and which […]

Joe Postel recently won summary judgment for our insurer client in a coverage case against Commonwealth Edison involving a dispute about the application of the horizontal exhaustion rule and whether an endorsement to our client’s excess policy provided for vertical exhaustion.  George Moyett, an electrician, was severely burned by electricity […]

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 […]