Nicholson v. St. Anne Lanes, Inc.

PRESIDING JUSTICE BARRY

delivered the opinion of the court:

The Illinois Insurance Guaranty Fund (hereafter, Fund) appeals from two orders of the circuit court of Kankakee County, one compelling St. Anne Lanes, Inc., defendant, to assign to plaintiff its purported “bad faith” cause of action against its insolvent insurer and against the Fund as successor to the insurer and the other one granting plaintiff’s motion to strike the appearance of the Fund.

This appeal had its inception in a personal injury suit brought by plaintiff Robert Nicholson against St. Anne Lanes, Inc., owner of a bowling…