RIVERA v. ALLSTATE INS. CO.

No. 1-20-0735.

189 N.E.3d 982 (2021)

2021 IL App (1st) 200735

Daniel RIVERA; Stephen Kensinger; Debra Joy Meacock; and Rebecca Scheuneman, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, FIRST DIVISION.

Rehearing denied July 8, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert D. Sweeney , John J. Scharkey , Joanne H. Sweeney , and Anna R. Bugan , of Sweeney, Scharkey & Blanchard, LLC, of Chicago, for appellants.

Gerard Pauling , Uma Chandrasekaran , and Katelyn Miller , of Seyfarth Shaw LLC, and Anneliese Wermuth and Jenny Goltz , of Cozen & O'Connor, both of Chicago, and Rex Heinke and Jessica M Weisel , of Akin Gump Struss Hauer & Feld LLP, of Los Angeles, California, for appellee.


OPINION

¶ 1 This is an appeal from the dismissal of defamation per se, defamation per quod, and false light claims. Plaintiffs—Daniel Rivera, Stephen Kensinger, Debra Joy Meacock, and Rebecca Scheuneman—originally filed a complaint in federal...

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