Illinois Adopts 2024 NAIC Standards: What Businesses Need to Know About Insurance Cost-Sharing Agreements
As of March 14, 2025, Illinois amended 50 Ill. Adm. Code 654 to align with the 2024 NAIC Model Act, impacting cost-sharing and service agreements among insurance affiliates. Businesses must now meet enhanced disclosure requirements to avoid enforcement risks. Learn what this means for your holding-company structure and internal agreements.
Insurance coverage: don’t outsmart yourself
In a twist on bad faith insurance claims, ISMIE Mutual v. Pergament reveals how unclear coverage and premature settlements can leave plaintiffs empty-handed
Whistleblower Has Jury Award for Emotional Distress Damages Reduced
Whistleblower claims may face tougher scrutiny—A recent appellate decision in Svec v. City of Chicago reduced a $3M emotional distress award, signaling stricter review standards for such damages. Learn how this case could reshape whistleblower verdicts and legal strategy.
Illinois Adopts 2024 NAIC Standards: What Businesses Need to Know About Insurance Cost-Sharing Agreements
As of March 14, 2025, Illinois amended 50 Ill. Adm. Code 654 to align with the 2024 NAIC Model Act, impacting cost-sharing and service agreements among insurance affiliates. Businesses must now meet enhanced disclosure requirements to avoid enforcement risks. Learn what this means for your holding-company structure and internal agreements.
Insurance coverage: don’t outsmart yourself
In a twist on bad faith insurance claims, ISMIE Mutual v. Pergament reveals how unclear coverage and premature settlements can leave plaintiffs empty-handed
Whistleblower Has Jury Award for Emotional Distress Damages Reduced
Whistleblower claims may face tougher scrutiny—A recent appellate decision in Svec v. City of Chicago reduced a $3M emotional distress award, signaling stricter review standards for such damages. Learn how this case could reshape whistleblower verdicts and legal strategy.
Small Firm vs. Big Players: Talent War Struggles!
Propelling Business Excellence Small Firm vs. Big players: Talent War Struggles! Thomas Patterson Founder – Patterson Law Firm
Patterson Law Firm Wins $32 million Legal Malpractice Case Against the “Largest Law Firm in the World”
CHICAGO, Feb. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — On behalf of RevoLaze, LLC, Kristi Browne and Sarah Dunkley of Patterson Law Firm won a $32,262,488.50 legal malpractice jury verdict against attorney Mark Hogge and Dentons. This is a win for RevoLaze against a firm that claims to be the largest law firm
Patterson Law Firm Attorney Michael D. Haeberle Named Partner
CHICAGO – January 3, 2017– Patterson Law Firm, a commercial litigation law firm, has elevated Michael D. Haeberle to Partner. Mr. Haeberle focuses his practice on commercial litigation, including breach of contract, legal malpractice and professional liability and appellate matters.
Patterson Law Firm’s early intervention helps medical residents avoid pitfalls that could lead to termination.
Time and time again we hear from medical residents who thought they were doing fine in their program, had been told they passed all their rotations, just to find out when they got the contract for the next residency year
Patterson Law Firm helped their client avoid arbitration in a professional employment dispute
Arbitration clauses are sometimes included in contracts and require disputes between the parties to be resolved through arbitration instead of filing a lawsuit. The enforceability of arbitration provisions is an issue that often arises when parties seek to amend contracts
Another Patterson Law Firm Legal Malpractice Win
On October 24, 2022, Patterson Law Firm defeated yet another effort by legal malpractice defendants to get the claims against them dismissed. The case, filed in Cook County, Illinois, alleged that the lawyer and his firm failed to properly protect
Patterson Law Firm Defeats Attempt to Dismiss Legal Malpractice Claim Based on the State of Limitations
In a ruling October 3, 2022, Patterson Law Firm defeated defendants’ efforts to get a legal malpractice case dismissed, for the second time. Defendants moved to dismiss the claim on the basis that the statue of limitations had expired before
The impact of tariffs on contract enforcement
Tariffs can turn contracts into financial liabilities. Learn how clauses like force majeure, impracticability, and commercial reasonableness may offer relief.
Judicial Control of Ex Parte Contacts in Informal Rulemaking Judicial Control of Ex Parte Contacts in Informal Rulemaking Proceedings – Home Box Office v. Federal Communications Proceedings – Home Box Office v. Federal Communications Commission
by. Thomas Patterson A Federal Communications Commission administrator telephones an expert affiliated with an industry likely to be affected by a forthcoming agency regulation. The expert answers questions concerning data contained in the record which the administrator is reviewing prior to issuing the regulation. This ex parte conversation is quickly forgotten when the Commission promulgates its rule. Subsequently, a party disliking the new rule learns of the phone call and brings it to the attention of the reviewing court. Is
Attorneys, the Internet, and Hate Speech: An Argument for an Amended Model Rule 8.4
By Jefferey Ogden Katz & Alexander I. Passo Since the invention of the internet, our lives have changed dramatically. Conveying ideas and information to broad audiences has become much simpler, as all types of ideas are now shared—including hateful ones targeted at minority groups. The internet is a bastion for hate speech within the United States. There are countless discriminatory posts circulated online daily, often by those who are meant to protect us. Unfortunately, attorneys frequently take part in this.
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