Virginia Surety Co. v. Northern Insurance

Chief Justice Thomas and Justices Freeman, Kilbride, Garman, Karmeier, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion.

OPINION

The plaintiff, Virginia Surety Company, Inc. (Virginia Surety), challenges the appellate court’s decision to affirm the Will County circuit court’s summary judgment order in favor of defendant, Northern Insurance Company of New York (Northern). The issue is Northern’s liability to its insured, De Graf Concrete Construction, Inc. (De Graf), under a commercial general liability (CGL) policy for a single-count third-party contribution action brought against De Graf. For…