{"id":1750,"date":"2013-07-15T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2013-07-13T14:44:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T19:44:40","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-affirms-judgment-against-insurer-who-neglected-injury-case-delatorre-v-safeway-ins-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-judgment-against-insurer-who-neglected-injury-case-delatorre-v-safeway-ins-co\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Judgment Against Insurer Who Neglected Injury Case; Delatorre v. Safeway Ins. Co."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In this auto accident case, the defendant insurance company, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.safewayinsurance.com\/default.aspx?Lang=EN\">Safeway Insurance Co.<\/a>, insured Ruben Delatorre under a policy of insurance with a limit of $40,000.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Safeway hired an attorney to represent Delatorre in the personal injury lawsuit brought against Delatorre.<span>\u00a0<\/span>However, the lawyer for Delatorre\/Safeway never submitted a bill and was never paid.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The lawyer apparently abandoned the case, and a default judgment was entered against Delatorre in the amount of $250,000.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Then the plaintiff in the auto-injury case received an assignment from \u00a0Delatorre allowing the personal injury plaintiff to sue Safeway directly for the excess judgment.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The judge in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookcountyclerkofcourt.org\/\">Circuit Court of Cook County<\/a> granted the plaintiff\u2019s motion for summary judgment, ruling that Safeway breached its duty to defend and was liable for the entire $250,000 judgment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-judgment-against-insurer-who-neglected-injury-case-delatorre-v-safeway-ins-co\/#more-1750\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this auto accident case, the defendant insurance company, Safeway Insurance Co., insured Ruben Delatorre under a policy of insurance with a limit of $40,000.\u00a0Safeway hired an attorney to represent Delatorre in the personal injury lawsuit brought against Delatorre.\u00a0However, the lawyer for Delatorre\/Safeway never submitted a bill and was never paid.\u00a0The lawyer apparently abandoned the [&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":[45,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-accidents","category-car-accidents","category-insurance-claims"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Judgment Against Insurer Who Neglected Injury Case; Delatorre v. 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