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Joe has been practicing law for over 40 years, specializing in insurance coverage litigation and counseling for 30 years. He joined the firm in 2006 after 20 years as an in-house defense and coverage litigator with a large property and casualty insurer.
Joe is the firm’s Coverage Department Lead. He has extensive experience with advising clients, and litigating, a wide range of coverages, including CGL, commercial auto, personal auto, homeowner’s, farm owner’s, law enforcement liability, civil rights liability, and D&O enterprise liability coverage. Construction defect and additional insured coverage under CGL policies are particular specialties of his. Although Joe enjoys winning cases for his clients, he derives equal satisfaction from avoiding litigation, and settling cases. Joe is licensed to practice in the Illinois state courts, in the federal courts for the Northern, Central, and Southern Districts, and in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Although he went to college and law school in Oregon, Joe is an Illinois native with deep roots in the state, descended from coal miners and canal diggers in the Illinois Valley.
Legal Assistant
- Jovonn Elem-West
- Title: Legal Assistant
- Phone: 312-794-8344
- Email: jwest@lpplawfirm.com
Practice Areas
Results
- Joe Postel and Brendan Ross Engineer Four Settlements in Construction Defect Matters – in One Day!
- Illinois Supreme Court Allows LPP’s Petition for Leave to Appeal
- Joe Postel And Haley Loutfy Obtain Judgment On The Pleadings In Construction Defect Case
- Judgment on the Pleadings – Successful Post-Settlement Target Tender of Excess Policy
- Joe Postel Wins Summary Judgment in a Coverage Case Involving Disputes Over Horizontal and Vertical Exhaustion
- Joe Postel Wins Judgment in a Sangamon County Coverage Case Involving Alleged Abuse by a Police Officer of a Minor
- Joe Postel – Wins A Significant Construction Defect Coverage Case On Hotly Contested Issue
- Joe Postel Wins An Appeal Involving Application Of The Dead Man’s Act
- Summary Judgment – No Duty To Defend Claim For Negligent Supervision Resulting In Sexual Abuse
- Construction Injury – General Contractor Not An Additional Insured On Policy Issued To Sub-subcontractor
- First Interpretation Of Liquor Liability Exclusion In Illinois Goes To The Insurer
- Summary Judgment – No Duty To Defend Or Indemnify Municipality Against Polluted Drinking Water Lawsuit
- Summary Judgment – Carrier Has No Duty To Defend Where Insured Failed To Timely Notify Carrier Of Claim Or Suit
- Construction Defect—No Coverage For Design-Build Architect Under Subcontractor’s CGL Policy For Disappointed Homeowner’s Lawsuit, Because No Property Damage And No Occurrence
- Medical Transport Vehicle Coverage – Accident Victim’s UM Insurer Off The Hook Because Liability Insurer’s Notice Of Cancellation Was Invalid, Since Insurer Did Not Provide Statutorily Required Notice To Secretary Of State
- Additional Insured Endorsement – HVAC Repairman Falls To His Death In Woodfield Mall Common Area; Mall Not Entitled To Coverage Under Tenant’s Policy
- Choice of Law – Rejection of Underinsured Motorist Arbitration Award Controlled by Indiana Law
- Breach Of Contract To Settle Product Liability Lawsuit – Offer Was Effectively Withdrawn When Trial Judge Granted Defendant’s Summary Judgment Motion
- Owners And Contractors Protective Liability Policy – Completed Operations Exclusion; CGL Blanket Additional Insured Endorsement – No Coverage Because No Contract Requiring Coverage; No Insured Contract Claim Because No Indemnity Judgment
- Anti-Stacking Clause Valid
- Equitable Subrogation Available To Excess Insurer – Equitable Contribution Not Available To Insurer That Covered Different Risk
- Appellate Jurisdiction – Appellate Court Had No Jurisdiction To Hear Appeal Because Plaintiff Did Not Appeal Within 30 Days Of Summary Judgment
- Product Liability – Defendant Entitled To Summary Judgment Because Plaintiff Could Not Prove That Defendant Manufactured Product
- Breach Of Contract To Procure Insurance—No Breach Because Obligor Purchased The Required Insurance
- Priority Of Coverage For Rental Vehicle—Policies Contribute By Equal Shares, Not Pro Rata
- Auto Business Exclusion Applies To Car Wash Employee Driving Insured Car
- Additional Insured Coverage — “Arising Out Of” Condition Satisfied By Plaintiff’s Employment With Named Insured
- Construction Defect Complaint Against Architect Falls Within Professional Services Exclusion In Contractor’s CGL Policy
- Village Electrical Contractor Owed No Duty To Motorists To Redesign Traffic Light Sequence
- Jury Selection—Judge Did Not Err In Disallowing Plaintiff’s Third Peremptory Challenge Of An African-American Venireman