{"id":6631,"date":"2017-09-26T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?p=6631"},"modified":"2019-10-17T10:54:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T10:54:06","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-finds-attorney-client-privilege-applicable-insurance-coverage-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-finds-attorney-client-privilege-applicable-insurance-coverage-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Finds That Attorney-Client Privilege is Applicable in Insurance Coverage Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Appellate Court of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> District resolved a discovery dispute in an insurance coverage lawsuit between plaintiff-insured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorola.com\/us\/home\">Motorola Solutions Inc. <\/a>and the defendant-insurers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zurichna.com\/\">Zurich Insurance Co.<\/a> and Associated Indemnity Corp. The court held that absent an applicable cooperation clause, attorney-client privilege applies to any appropriate documents.<\/p>\n<p>This was an insurance coverage dispute between Motorola and the two insurance companies that had to do with several personal injury lawsuits brought by former employees and contractors who claimed they had been exposed to chemicals in \u201cclean rooms\u201d located in Motorola\u2019s manufacturing facilities. It was argued that the court should require defendants to defend and absorb defense costs for these personal injury actions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-finds-attorney-client-privilege-applicable-insurance-coverage-dispute\/#more-6631\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Appellate Court of the 1st District resolved a discovery dispute in an insurance coverage lawsuit between plaintiff-insured Motorola Solutions Inc. and the defendant-insurers Zurich Insurance Co. and Associated Indemnity Corp. The court held that absent an applicable cooperation clause, attorney-client privilege applies to any appropriate documents. This was an insurance coverage dispute between [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[84,64,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemical-exposure-injuries","category-indemnification-claims","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 Finds That Attorney-Client Privilege is Applicable in Insurance Coverage Dispute &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Illinois Appellate Court of the 1st District resolved a discovery dispute in an insurance coverage lawsuit between plaintiff-insured Motorola\" \/>\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\/illinois-appellate-court-finds-attorney-client-privilege-applicable-insurance-coverage-dispute\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Illinois Appellate Court Finds That Attorney-Client Privilege is Applicable in Insurance Coverage Dispute &#8212; 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