Illinois
Court Outlines Elements to Consider for Good Faith Analysis of Settlement
Demand
Cozen O'Connor presents the latest edition of the Global Insurance - Bad Faith Alert
titled "Illinois
Court Outlines Elements to Consider for Good Faith Analysis of Settlement
Demand" by Kevin
Kamraczewski and Megan
E. Whitehill.
To settle or not
to settle: that is the question for liability insurers. If you are
pondering whether you must accept a plaintiff’s settlement offer, read
on. A recent Illinois case, Huang
v. Brenson, 7 N.E.3d 729 (Ill. App. Ct. 2014), may shed some
light.
Plaintiff John Z.
Huang represented Yongping Zhou in a deportation suit. Mid-suit, Zhou
terminated the representation and retained another attorney. Throughout
the course of the litigation, Zhou hired several more attorneys and
ultimately succeeded in vacating his domestic violence conviction after
spending two years in an Immigration and Naturalization Service detention
center. Zhou then sued Huang for legal malpractice.
The full article presented by Cozen O'Conner can be found here.
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