Company Seeks Sanctions After Insurers’ Objections To Discovery Ruling Are Overruled

Mealey's (April 22, 2022, 9:51 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A general contractor that obtained a judgment against a subcontractor that supplied defective materials for a construction project at O’Hare Airport moved for sanctions against the subcontractor’s insurers on April 11, less than two weeks after a federal judge in Illinois overruled the insurers’ objections to a magistrate judge’s ruling partially granting the contractor’s request to compel production of various documents.  The contractor says the insurers’ objections were based on arguments that were not presented to the magistrate judge....