EDWARDSVILLE — A woman injured in a car crash is suing State Farm to enforce an arbitration award of more than $300,000, alleging the insurer needlessly delayed resolving her underinsured motorist claim.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Cincinnati Insurance moved to dismiss a suit of East Alton video game shop Maverick’s Slots for coverage of lockdown losses on Oct. 9.
In November, voters in the Illinois Third Judicial District will vote on whether to allow state Supreme Court Justice Thomas Kilbride to retain his seat on the court, or force him to run for reelection.
The following cases categorized as "contract" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois on July 17. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois reported the following activities in the suit brought by Ladarius Guly against State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company on July 17.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Local lawyers have sued State Farm seeking compensation and a civil penalty of $60,000 for each policyholder in the nation who didn’t receive uninsured motorist coverage in a timely manner.
EDWARDSVILLE - A wide gap between the estimates of the cost of storm damage to a house has prompted a lawsuit against an insurance company.Home owner Kristen Monroe claims the cost of the damage to her Collinsville property was more than $125,000.
SPRINGFIELD – All seven Supreme Court Justices agreed that Madison County courts violated the U.S. constitution by exercising jurisdiction over claims with no connection to Illinois.
EDWARDSVILLE – A homeowner claims her insurance company wrongly entered into an agreement with a third party that severely limited any ability to sue for personal injury.
EDWARDSVILLE – The cost of hail damage to a house was first assessed by an insurance company to be $1,470, but after repeated further inspections, investigators from the insurance company assessed the total cost at $140,672, prompting a lawsuit.
When State Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier retires from the bench next December, there’ll be many ways to judge his 16-year career on the high court, including the quality of the decisions he made, the quality of the company he kept and the friends he made, and the quality of the enemies he accumulated.
BELLEVILLE – Former St. Clair County Circuit judge Vincent Lopinot and wife Connie Lopinot bumped Circuit Judge Stephen McGlynn off a suit they filed against State Farm over damage to their home.
BELLEVILLE — A St. Clair County cyclist has filed a vehicular personal injury complaint against State Farm over injuries he received in a collision while bicycling in Belleville in 2017.
EDWARDSVILLE — An Illinois-based insurance and financial services company said it is certain one of its Madison County agents is an independent contractor, despite the agent's recently filed putative class action that alleges otherwise.
BELLEVILLE — A policy holder suffering after an auto collision in which an uninsured or underinsured motorist is at fault should, as a first step, call their insurance company rather than a local personal injury attorney, an industry advocacy group spokesperson said.
BENTON – State Farm successfully challenged Madison County jurisdiction in a suit over storm damage at a Missouri home but failed to move the suit to Missouri.