Stephen Richard Ayres

Significant Cases: Swann & Weiskopf v. Meed Associates Persuaded Illinois Appellate Court, First District, to affirm trial court's summary judgment dismissing claim against engineering firm which had designed storm water retention system, as being untimely under Illinois Construction Statute of Limitations.; County of DuPage v. Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum 1996 WL 33413358 (Ill. App. 1996) Represented general contractor in the highly publicized sick building case involving the new DuPage County Courthouse, with a defense verdict following a month long jury trial, which was upheld on appeal.; Capitol Indemnity v. Elston Self Service Wholesale Groceries (7th Cir. 2009) Persuaded 7th Circuit to affirm summary judgment for insured-client holding that alleged sale of counterfeit cigarettes falls within advertising injury coverage and not excluded by prior acts exclusion in policy.; Great American Insurance Co. v. Helwig 419 F.Supp. 2d 1017 (N.D. Ill. 2005) Obtained summary judgment for insured for underground pollution of well water despite absolute pollution exclusion by arguing that that exclusion was not part of the personal injury or advertising coverage of the insured's policy.; Sycamore Industrial Park Ass' n v. Ericsson No. 08-1118 (7th Cir. 2008) Persuaded 7th Circuit to uphold summary judgment for seller of industrial park alleged to be liable under CERCLA and RCRA for asbestos in the buildings.; Farfan v. Commonwealth Edison No. 1-10-0502 (Ill. App. 2011) Obtained summary judgment for utility in electrocution death case which was upheld on appeal in the Illinois Appellate Court, First District.