Mealey's (February 21, 2018, 10:14 AM EST) -- CHICAGO — Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co. has asked the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to reverse a lower federal court’s finding that it was liable for the full amount of a $4.6 million underlying judgment based on its failure to defend its insured, arguing that the lower court’s opinion “upends decades of settled Illinois law” (Shannon Hyland v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co., 17-2712, 7th Cir.)....