The property-and-casualty insurer disclosed Susan Stone’s impending departure in a securities filing that shed no light on the circumstances.       

“We are very pleased with the court’s recent decision affirming our client’s right to assert claims against both its insurer and the insurance agents who recommended and purchased the operative policy on our client’s behalf,” said Scott C. Frost, an attorney at Howard & Howard, who represents the plaintiff.       

“Plaintiffs’ collective litigation actions’ against the hospital defendants provide no basis for a finding of any good faith effort or genuine intent to pursue a claim against the hospital defendants to judgment, U.S. District Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer of the Northern District of Illinois wrote in a ruling rejecting six plaintiffs’ motions for remand to

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The court concluded that the plaintiff established that, but for his psychological disability, he wouldn’t have been denied medical clearance for the role.       

“We were delighted to achieve the reversal on our clients’ behalf and with the impact it will have on privacy litigation moving forward. It sets an important precedent for pursuing relief and benefits not only for the class in our case, but data breach cases across Illinois,” Alex Phillips, of Strauss Borrelli in Madison, Wisconsin,

Christian Gonzalez is departing Dinsmore & Shohl, No. 117 in the Am Law 200, to become chief legal officer of the nation’s 14th-largest bank.       

“In short, a reasonable person in Bryant’s position might have overlooked it. Courts have routinely denied summary judgment and found a genuine issue of fact as to whether a condition was open and obvious where the plaintiff failed to notice a condition prior to slipping or tripping under facts like this case,” said U.S. District

The lower court had agreed with the woman’s arguments that the claims should not go to arbitration since the wrongful death suit doesn’t arise out of her use of the app and the arbitration clause her husband signed should not be extended to bind her claims.       

U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly of the Northern District of Illinois granted defendant Virginia Surety’s motion to reconsider its motion to dismiss plaintiff PMC Casualty Corp.’s breach of contract suit, where it claimed it was owed nearly $20 million, but denied the company’s motion to dismiss the suit for a second time.