BROCATO v. PRAIRIE STATE FARMERS INS. ASS'N

No. 4-87-0641.

166 Ill. App.3d 986 (1988)

520 N.E.2d 1200

FRANK BROCATO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PRAIRIE STATE FARMERS INSURANCE ASSOCIATION et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

Opinion filed March 9, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul R. Wilson, Jr., of Wilson Law Office, P.C., of Rantoul, for appellant.

Donald F. Hemmesch, Jr., and Dean M. Athans, both of Taslitz, Smith & Hemmesch, of Chicago, for appellee Prairie State Farmers Insurance Association.

Hinshaw, Culbertson, Moelmann, Hoban & Fuller, of Chicago (D. Kendall Griffith, David E. Jones, and Kathryn A. Spalding, of counsel), for other appellees.


Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE KNECHT delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff Frank Brocato filed a personal injury action against Bruce Strough and received a jury verdict of $375,000. Strough then assigned to plaintiff his causes of action against defendants Prairie State Farmers Insurance Association, Frank J. Simutis, and Ackman, Marek, Boyd and Simutis, Ltd., his insurance carrier and the lawyer and law firm retained by the carrier to defend him against...

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