Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

About this office:

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is a national law firm with approximately 500 lawyers in 24 offices. The firm offers a full-service practice, with an emphasis in litigation, business law and corporate transactions, environmental, intellectual property, labor and employment law, professional liability defense, estate planning and taxation matters. Our attorneys provide services to a range of for-profit and not-for-profit clients in industries that include alarm and security services, construction, financial services, health care, hospitality, insurance, lawyers and law firms, manufacturing, real estate, retail and transportation. Our clients also include government agencies, municipalities and schools.

Hinshaw was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in Chicago and has offices in 12 states: Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Wisconsin.

Appellate, Banking & Financing, Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights, Class Action Litigation, Civil Rights Defense, Commercial Litigation, Corporate, Construction Law, Director & Officer Liability, Employee Benefits, Environmental, Fidelity & Surety, General Liability Litigation, Government, Health Care, Insurance Coverage, Insurance and Reinsurance, Labor & Employment, Legal Malpractice, Medical Malpractice, Mergers & Acquisitions, Municipal Liability, Personal Injury Defense, Public Law, Products Liability Litigation, Professional Liability, Regulatory, Real Estate, School Law, Securities, Taxation, Transportation, White Collar Crime and Workers' Compensation Defense.

Insurer’s Duty to Defend Continues Until All Arguably-Covered Claims Against the Insured Have Been Extinguished With Finality
Paulette S. Sarp, February 8, 2012
Plaintiff homeowners sued defendants, a planning agency and its contractor, for damages they allegedly sustained to their home as a result of a nearby public-works construction project. Defendant insurer had issued a liability insurance policy to the contractor, which covered the agency as an...

Paying Policy Limits to Resolve a Covered Claim for One But Not Both Liable Insureds Acceptable in Texas
Duana J. Grage, May 17, 2011
An employee of an insured transportation company rear-ended a truck while she was driving one of the insured’s vehicles. The truck driver was consequently rendered a paraplegic and subsequently sued the insured and the employee. The insured was covered by a primary policy issued by a first...

Claims-Made E&O Policy’s Prior Knowledge Condition Applies Despite Insured’s Subjective Belief That Unasserted Claim Could Be Successfully Defended
Bethany K. Culp, April 1, 2011
From 2004 - 2006, an employee of an insured real estate management firm orchestrated a fraudulent embezzlement scheme. When a tenant who was qualified to have his or her rent subsidized by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) moved out of a unit in a certain apartment complex,...

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