Sanctions Motion Settles After Insurers’ Objections To Discovery Ruling Are Overruled

Mealey's (May 4, 2022, 8:10 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A federal magistrate judge in Illinois in an April 29 docket entry denied as moot a general contractor’s motion for sanctions against a subcontractor’s insurers after receiving notice that day that the parties had settled the issue.  The contractor filed the motion for sanctions April 11,  less than two weeks after the judge presiding over the case overruled the insurers’ objections to the magistrate judge’s ruling partially granting the contractor’s request to compel production of various documents....