{"id":3275,"date":"2014-03-17T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=3275"},"modified":"2019-10-17T10:52:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T10:52:52","slug":"jury-returns-467000-jury-verdict-blaming-broker-insurers-denial-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/jury-returns-467000-jury-verdict-blaming-broker-insurers-denial-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury Returns a $467,000 Jury Verdict Blaming Broker for Insurer\u2019s Denial of Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">James Werner, who was also the defendant in this case, was the insurer producer for Office Furnishings Ltd. and Brathan Property LLC. Brathan Property owned a commercial building at 725 S. 25<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vil.bellwood.il.us\/government\/default.aspx\">Bellwood<\/a>, Ill., where Office Furnishings maintained a warehouse for its office furniture business.<span>\u00a0<\/span> Werner obtained insurance coverage for Office Furnishings and Brathan Property with American Family Insurance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">American Family required its own application to be signed by the insureds, in this case Office Furnishings and Brathan Property, which was done in a meeting on Dec. 17, 2002.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On Jan. 31, 2003, the roof of the warehouse shattered due to extreme cold weather and high winds, which caused serious property damage to the building and its contents. Office Furnishings and Brathan Property submitted a claim for their losses, including $1,349,872 in estimated roof replacement costs, $729,295 for inventory damage and $88,074, which represented the cost of a temporary roof.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/jury-returns-467000-jury-verdict-blaming-broker-insurers-denial-coverage\/#more-3275\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Werner, who was also the defendant in this case, was the insurer producer for Office Furnishings Ltd. and Brathan Property LLC. Brathan Property owned a commercial building at 725 S. 25th Avenue in Bellwood, Ill., where Office Furnishings maintained a warehouse for its office furniture business.\u00a0 Werner obtained insurance coverage for Office Furnishings and [&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":[41,49,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breach-of-contract","category-business-litigation","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>Jury Returns a $467,000 Jury Verdict Blaming Broker for Insurer\u2019s Denial of Coverage &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"James Werner, who was also the defendant in this case, was the insurer producer for Office Furnishings Ltd. and Brathan Property LLC. 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