Legal Opinion
Salvator v. Admiral Merchants Motor Freight
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided June 22, 1987No. 4—86—0673, 4—86—0761 consPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRESIDING JUSTICE SPITZ
delivered the opinion of the court:
This appeal results from a summary judgment on liability being granted to the plaintiff against Admiral Merchants Motor Freight (Admiral) and a subsequent jury verdict for compensatory and punitive damages.
The basis of plaintiff’s claim is that Admiral had a duty to defend him in a lawsuit in which he and Admiral were defendants in the State of Oregon as a result of an accident that occurred there when plaintiff was driving, that Admiral failed to defend him and failed to pay the resulting default judgment within a reasonable time,…
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