MARQUE MEDICOS FULLERTON, LLC v. ZURICH AMERICAN INSURANCE CO.

Nos. 1-16-0756, 1-16-0954, 1-16-0955, 1-16-0956 cons.

2017 IL App (1st) 160756

MARQUE MEDICOS FULLERTON, LLC; MEDICOS PAIN & SURGICAL SPECIALISTS, S.C.; AMBULATORY SURGICAL CARE FACILITY, LLC; and MARQUE MEDICOS KEDZIE, LLC, for Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ZURICH AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY, AMERICAN ZURICH INSURANCE COMPANY, ASSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA, and MARYLAND CASUALTY COMPANY, Defendants-Appellees. MARQUE MEDICOS FULLERTON, LLC; MEDICOS PAIN & SURGICAL SPECIALISTS, S.C.; and AMBULATORY SURGICAL CARE FACILITY, LLC, for Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. TRAVELERS PROPERTY CASUALTY COMPANY OF AMERICA, TRAVELERS INDEMNITY COMPANY OF AMERICA, TRAVELERS CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA, TRAVELERS CASUALTY AND SURETY COMPANY OF AMERICA, THE PHOENIX INSURANCE COMPANY, FARMINGTON CASUALTY COMPANY, THE STANDARD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, and THE CHARTER OAK FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendants-Appellees. MARQUE MEDICOS FULLERTON, LLC; MEDICOS PAIN & SURGICAL SPECIALISTS, S.C.; and AMBULATORY SURGICAL CARE FACILITY, LLC, for Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. HARTFORD UNDERWRITERS INSURANCE COMPANY; HARTFORD INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE MIDWEST; HARTFORD ACCIDENT AND INDEMNITY COMPANY; HARTFORD INSURANCE COMPANY OF ILLINOIS; HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY; HARTFORD CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY; TWIN CITY FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY; TRUMBULL INSURANCE COMPANY; and SENTINEL INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD., Defendants-Appellees. MARQUE MEDICOS FULLERTON, LLC; MEDICOS PAIN & SURGICAL SPECIALISTS, S.C.; and AMBULATORY SURGICAL CARE FACILITY, LLC, for Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. AIG INSURANCE COMPANY, f/k/a Chartis Casualty Company; NATIONAL UNION FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PITTSBURGH; ILLINOIS NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY; COMMERCE & INDUSTRY INSURANCE COMPANY; NEW HAMPSHIRE INSURANCE COMPANY; INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA; AMERICAN HOME ASSURANCE COMPANY; and AIG PROPERTY CASUALTY COMPANY, f/k/a Chartis Property Casualty Company, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Sixth Division.

Filed June 30, 2017


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sperling & Slater, P.C. ( Bruce S. Sperling , Harvey J. Barnett , Mitchell H. Macknin , and Daniel A. Shmikler , of counsel), and The Pace Law Firm, LLC ( Randall F. Pace , of counsel), both of Chicago, and Alan J. Mandel, Ltd., of Skokie ( Alan J. Mandel , of counsel), for appellants.

Dentons US LLP ( Steven M. Levy and Richard L. Fenton , of Chicago, Sarah E.S. Carlson , of St. Louis, Missouri, and Laura Geist (pro hoc vice), of San Francisco, California, of counsel), DLA Piper LLP (US) ( Raja Gaddipati and Joseph A. Roselius , of counsel), Winston & Strawn, LLP ( Timothy J. Rooney , Shane W. Blackstone , and Kathryn Wendel Bayer , of counsel), both of Chicago, and Alston & Bird LLP, of New York, New York (Adam Kaiser (pro hoc vice), of counsel), for appellees.

Presiding Justice Hoffman and Justice Delort concurred in the judgment and opinion.


OPINION

¶ 1 In these consolidated appeals, plaintiffs-appellants1 appeal from the dismissal, with prejudice, of four separate putative class-action lawsuits filed against defendants-appellees.2 For the following...

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