Mother Wants Son’s $4.6M Liability Ruling Reinstated By Supreme Court

Mealey's (July 25, 2018, 9:20 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals “greatly departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings” in concluding that a liability insurer may fail to defend a lawsuit in breach of its contract with the insured, all the while safe in the knowledge that at worst it will someday hypothetically be liable only for the policy limits, a woman told the Supreme Court on June 28 (Shannon Hyland, et al. v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co., No. 18-24, U.S. Sup.)....