Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is a national law firm with more than 460 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, legal, 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.

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Allows Certain Asbestos Plaintiffs Two Apparent Bites at the Apple Against New Defendants
Craig T. Liljestrand, December 10, 2009
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently held that asbestos plaintiffs who had recovered from non-malignant conditions prior to Pennsylvania’s adoption of the “two-disease rule” in 1992 may now seek damages from new defendants if they later develop an asbestos-related cancer....

Appellate Court Reverses Largest Florida Asbestos Verdict
Craig T. Liljestrand, December 2, 2009
Honeywell vs. Guilder, et al., 2009 WL 3446406 (Fla. App. 3 Dist.) (Oct. 28, 2009).

FDIC Adopts Final Rule Requiring Institutions to Prepay More than Three Years of Assessments
Brian L. Goins, Michael D. Morehead, Timothy M. Sullivan, November 25, 2009
On November 12, 2009, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) amended its regulations to require insured institutions to prepay their estimated quarterly risk-based assessments for the fourth quarter of 2009 and for all of 2010-2012 (the prepayment period). This prepaid assessment will be...