Kansas City Office's Derek MacKay and Phillip Raine secured an arbitration win on behalf of a client, a California based auto-financing company, after a one-day arbitration where the claimant demanded more than $1,000,000 on a $14,000 car sale. The claimant purchased...
Month: March 2022
Recent Changes To Montana’s Wrongful Discharge Act
The Montana Wrongful Discharge of Employment Act (WDEA) was created in 1987 and provides the exclusive remedy for a claim of wrongful termination. Since the WDEA was established in 1987, it has gone unchanged until the 2021 Montana legislature made significant...
Illinois Court Reaffirms: No Tort of Bad Faith Under Illinois Law
In Kroutil v. State Farm, the Illinois Appellate Court once again upheld that there is no separate tort of bad faith for first party insurance losses. The focus of the Kroutil case was whether an action for vexatious refusal under Section 155 argument could exist...
KNM Secures Early Dismissal for Class I Railroad
Richard Tomich in the Peoria Office obtained a victory for a Class I railroad client via the dismissal of FELA and FRSA claims filed against the railroad in the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois. The outcome was achieved only 2 ½ months...