{"id":1702,"date":"2024-07-08T21:57:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T21:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-sides-with-insurer-over-historic-chicago-buildings-1-14m-estimate\/"},"modified":"2024-07-08T21:57:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T21:57:21","slug":"judge-sides-with-insurer-over-historic-chicago-buildings-1-14m-estimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-sides-with-insurer-over-historic-chicago-buildings-1-14m-estimate\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Sides With Insurer Over Historic Chicago Building&#8217;s $1.14M Estimate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>A federal judge sided with Travelers Indemnity Co. in a dispute over repairs to the historic Pittsfield Building in downtown Chicago, finding that the plaintiffs\u2019 reliance on an unverified verbal estimate to recover $1.14 million invalidated their coverage and required them to pay back $300,000 to the insurer.<\/p>\n<p>Acknowledging \u201cit is somewhat unusual\u201d to resolve issues involving a party\u2019s \u201cintentional misrepresentation\u201d at the summary judgment phase, U.S. District Judge Nancy L. Maldonado of the Northern District of Illinois concluded that the Pittsfield Development plaintiffs misrepresented they were owed $1.14 million for lead paint and asbestos removal after pipes burst and caused more than $8.5 million worth of damage\u00a0in December 2016. The parties disputed the plaintiffs\u2019 reliance of a \u201cgeneralized estimate\u201d that was provided by a contractor,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/images.law.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/documents\/292\/186628\/0ba6f498-e946-4298-8df5-46966f13b821.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">July 3 opinion said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge sided with Travelers Indemnity Co. in a dispute over repairs to the historic Pittsfield Building in downtown Chicago, finding that the plaintiffs\u2019 reliance on an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2400,2399,364,2401,2398,2397,423,704],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-1-14m","tag-buildings","tag-chicago","tag-estimate","tag-historic","tag-insurer","tag-judge","tag-sides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}