VILLAGE OF CRESTWOOD v. IRONSHORE SPECIALTY INSURANCE CO.

Nos. 1-12-0112, 1-12-0227 cons.

2013 IL App (1st) 120112

THE VILLAGE OF CRESTWOOD, an Illinois Municipal Corporation and CHESTER STRANCZEK, Individually and as a Former Mayor of the Village of Crestwood, Plaintiff-Appellants, v. IRONSHORE SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, WESTPORT INSURANCE CORPORATION, and UNITED NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fifth Division.

Filed February 22, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Marc Chemers , Scott L. Howie , Heather E. Plunkett , and Peter G. Syregelas , all of Pretzel & Stouffer, Chtrd., of Chicago, for appellant Village of Crestwood.

Chris C. Gar , John H. Mathias, Jr. , Christopher C. Dickinson , and Jason J. Green , all of Jenner & Block, LLP, of Chicago, for appellant Chester Stranczek.

Carlos Del Campo and Mary E. Fechtig , both of Meckler Bulger Tilson Marick & Pearson, LLP, of Chicago, for appellee Ironshore Specialty Insurance Company.

Robert J. Bates, Jr. , and Catherine M. Crisham , both of Bates Carey Nicolaides, LLP, of Chicago, for appellee Westport Insurance Corporation.

Edward J. Murphy , of Life Lyons Murphy Nahrstadt & Pontikas, of Chicago, and Lawrence K. Rynning, of Law Offices of Lawrence K. Rynning, of Wheaton, for appellee United National Insurance Company.

Justices Epstein and Palmer concurred in the judgment and opinion.


OPINION

PRESIDING JUSTICE McBRIDE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

¶ 1 Plaintiffs Village of Crestwood, Illinois, and the town's former long-standing mayor, Chester Stranczek (together Village or Crestwood), filed this declaratory judgment action seeking a declaration that three excess public entity general liability insurers owed duties to defend or indemnify against at least 25 individual and class action lawsuits alleging the Village...

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