Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

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.

In Criminal Malpractice Context, Accrual Occurs When Indictment Was Dismissed
Terrence P. McAvoy, February 8, 2012
The Supreme Court of New Jersey held that a criminal defendant’s malpractice claim against his defense counsel accrued on the date the indictment was ultimately dismissed with prejudice, not when the appellate court in the criminal case reversed and remanded based on ineffective assistance of...

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...

New Mandate on Coverage for Contraceptives: Strategies for Organizations
Anthony E. Antognoli,William P. Grogan, February 8, 2012
On January 20, 2012, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reiterated earlier guidance setting forth the preventive care services that must be offered in certain group health plans. This guidance, issued under the authority of section 2713 of the Patient Protection and Affordable...