As with any other contract, parties to an insurance contract owe a variety of duties to each other which are imposed by the express terms of the contract and some of which are implied by law. Generally, in a liability...
50 State Survey: Late Notice and the Prejudice Requirement Contributors: Todd S. Schenk and Aon Hussain in the Chicago Office
A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas entered a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the Department of Labor’s (DOL) new overtime rules from taking effect on December 1, 2016. As
As we head into the Thanksgiving weekend, it is a good time to look ahead to the changes in the Illinois Student Residency Law that take effect on January 1, 2017. While the ways to establish residency and a number of other...
Manhattan Jury Hits Costco With $8.25 Million in Punitive Damages In September, a jury awarded Tiffany & Co. $5.5 million in compensatory damages as a result of Costco’s sale of counterfeit engagement rings using...
In the 1986 comedy “The Money Pit” starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long, a couple purchases a country estate outside New York City for a suspiciously low price. As the doors fall of their hinges, staircases come tumbling