{"id":1033,"date":"2012-08-23T16:24:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T21:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury-robertkreisman.lawblogger.net\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2019-10-28T10:36:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T10:36:08","slug":"allstate-saddled-with-1-million-excess-judgment-following-motorcycle-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/allstate-saddled-with-1-million-excess-judgment-following-motorcycle-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Allstate Saddled with 1 Million &#8220;excess judgment&#8221; Following Motorcycle Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Appellate Court has ruled in favor of a motorcycle rider who lost a leg in an accident and sought a $1 million judgment against Allstate Insurance Co. This decision might have gone differently for Allstate, but the insurer made several very serious errors in its handling of the case.<\/p>\n<p>This case was reported in the <a href=\"http:\/\/\"><em>Chicago Daily Law Bulletin<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred on June 30, 2006, when the driver, E.H., allegedly drove a truck through a stop sign and smashed into the side of a motorcycle driven by S.K., whose leg later had to be amputated. The truck was owned by a third party, L.S.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/allstate-saddled-with-1-million-excess-judgment-following-motorcycle-accident\/#more-1033\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Appellate Court has ruled in favor of a motorcycle rider who lost a leg in an accident and sought a $1 million judgment against Allstate Insurance Co. This decision might have gone differently for Allstate, but the insurer made several very serious errors in its handling of the case. This case was reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insurance-claims","category-motorcycle-accidents"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Allstate Saddled with 1 Million &quot;excess judgment&quot; Following Motorcycle Accident &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Illinois Appellate Court has ruled in favor of a motorcycle rider who lost a leg in an accident and sought a $1 million judgment against Allstate\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/allstate-saddled-with-1-million-excess-judgment-following-motorcycle-accident\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Allstate Saddled with 1 Million &quot;excess judgment&quot; 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