The Appellate Court of Illinois resolved a discovery dispute in an insurance coverage suit between plaintiff-insured Motorola Solutions, Inc. and defendant-insurers Zurich Insurance Company and Associated Indemnity Corporation.
An insurer's unambiguous 120-day notice requirement violates public policy because it is contrary to the statutory purpose of uninsured motorist insurance.
The appellate court considered whether set-off language in an arbitrator's award made the award so indefinite as to prevent interest from accruing under § 2-1303 and held it did not.
The ISBA has approved a committee recommendation that the Illinois Supreme Court adopt the UBE, which is used by 25 jurisdictions, including Missouri and Iowa.
Other legislative proposals include altering the way life insurance proceeds are distributed to former spouses and increasing the credit defendants receive toward fines for time spent in jail.
Courts may award the entire survivor benefit of a party's military retirement plan to the same party because the benefit is not divisible under federal law.
With this rulemaking, the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR) repealed and replaced its rules and procedures pertaining to access to its records to comply with the most recent amendments to the Freedom of Information Act.
The Illinois Supreme Court reversed a circuit court's sentence of a juvenile as an adult who had been tried, but not convicted, for offenses listed in the "automatic transfer" procedure of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987.
Several amendments were made to the "Landowner Permits" provision under the Fish and Wildlife subchapter of the Conservation Title of the Illinois Administrative Code (17 Ill. Adm. Code 528 (eff. June 28, 2017)).
A Springfield-based former professor at a for-profit law school makes the case that these institutions have failed to live up to their promise of serving the underserved.
A Chicago lawyer is suing the city and other defendants for gathering cellphone information in a way that violates individual privacy and should require a warrant.
A recent ABA/Betty Ford Foundation study shows shockingly high levels of addiction and other mental health problems in the legal profession -- and that few lawyers seek help.
With the public domain citation system firmly in place in Illinois, there is no reason for Rule 23(e) nonprecedential, noncitable orders to exist – and plenty of reasons for them to go.
The Supreme Court of Illinois concluded that liens obtained by hospitals under the Health Care Services Lien Act (770 ILCS 23/1 et seq.) (the "Lien Act"), are not limited to or conditioned upon a finding or allocation for medical expenses for injuries sustained by a minor.
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