Coverage Owed For Malicious Prosecution Claim, Illinois Majority Says In Reversal

(January 16, 2019, 2:23 PM EST) -- ELGIN, Ill. — A majority of an Illinois appeals court on Jan. 15 held that a lower court erred in finding that coverage for an underlying malicious prosecution claim was triggered by the initiation of a wrongfully convicted man’s prosecution and not by his subsequent exoneration, reversing and remanding the dismissal of a breach of contract and improper claims practices lawsuit against two insurers (Rodell Sanders, et al. v. Illinois Union Insurance Company, et al., No. 1-18-0158, Ill. App., 1st Dist., Second Div., 2019 Ill. App. LEXIS 16)....

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