Illinois Panel Affirms Court’s Refusal To Allow Appellant To Amend Coverage Suit

Mealey's (April 14, 2021, 7:29 AM EDT) -- OTTAWA, Ill. — An Illinois panel on March 30 affirmed a lower court’s judgment that denied the appellant leave to amend for the third time his counterclaim against a commercial general liability insurer and third-party complaint against insurers and an insurance agent, finding that the appellant’s proposed third amendment would not cure his defective pleading and that the lower court’s decision to deny him leave to amend his complaint “was not arbitrary, fanciful, unreasonable, or one where no reasonable person would adopt its view.”...

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