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On April 12, 2022, the Circuit Court of Cook County vacated the November 5, 2021 “Law Division General Administrative Order 21-3” as well as its requirement to use its corresponding HIPAA Protective Order. The order to vacate comes only 5 months after its highly...
The Court of Appeals for the Western District of Missouri recently handed down its decision in Yuncker et al. v. Dodds et al. in which it found that an insurer lacked standing to appeal the circuit court’s failure to rule on its motion to intervene filed after entry...
Kansas City Office’s Derek MacKay, Andrew Serrone, and Patrick Allegri recently secured a directed verdict win on behalf of two clients, the owners of a Kansas-based logistics company. Plaintiff demanded more than $3,000,000 in damages resulting from a co-defendant’s...
The First Appellate Circuit in Illinois recently reversed a trial court's decision that State Farm did not owe a duty to defend. The underlying case involved a 13-year-old boy who was fatally struck by a driver whose employer was insured by both Nationwide and State...
In Ledure v. Union Pac. R.R. Co., the Supreme Court of the United States recently affirmed the grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant railroad company that was sued for negligence for alleged violations of the Locomotive Inspection Act (“LIA”) and Federal...
Keeping your address for service of process updated just got a bit more important. The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Eastern District recently upheld a trial court’s finding of default judgment and denied a defendant’s motion to set aside the default judgment. In...
It is impossible to underestimate the importance of railroad workers in supporting the livelihood of millions of people and the transfer of goods and services over great distances every day. Unfortunately, as a railroad services employer, your company may be...
The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District of Missouri recently addressed the types of claims that are subject to insurance policy appraisal provisions. In Brewer v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co., the Court vacated the trial court’s order directing the...
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...
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...