ISO Blanket Additional Insured Endorsement – General Contractor Not An Additional Insured On Policy Issued To Sub-subcontractor, As Sub-subcontractor Had No Contract With General Contractor – Joe Postel: Westfield Ins. Co. v. FCL Bldrs., Inc., Circuit Court of Cook County, 407 Ill. App. 3d 730, 948 N.E.2d 115 (1st Dist. 2011)

David Osborne: 2012 IL App (1st) 103760 (reversing the Circuit Court and entering judgment in favor of personal liability insurer client on the basis of the business pursuits exclusion, finding no coverage as a matter of law for dozens of wrongful death and personal injury claims based upon contamination of […]

David Osborne and Joe Postel successfully concluded a declaratory judgment action by prevailing in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Netherlands Ins. Company v. Phusion Projects, Inc., 737 F.3d 1174 (7th Cir. 2013). The insured manufactured alcoholic energy drinks, allegedly marketed to minors, and was sued in several wrongful […]

Attorney Katherine Crouch recently obtained summary judgment twice, on successive motions, in a Cook County case, extricating her janitorial services client from a multi-party lawsuit just a few months in advance of the trial date. The plaintiff fell on a broken drainage grate while at work, sustaining leg and wrist […]

Attorney Katherine Crouch recently obtained summary judgment in a premises liability case in Cook County. The Plaintiff was celebrating her bachelorette party at our client’s establishment. She slipped and fell on a spilled drink, landing on broken glass and resulting in a laceration to her wrist. She sustained a severed […]