James P. DuChateau

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  HeplerBroom LLC
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Cases: Obtained dismissal of insured's federal complaint for breach of contract
  statutory bad faith arising from a claim for additional, uncovered damage to a commercial property in Chicago. (New Revelation Ministries, Inc. v. Consolidated Ins. Co., N.D. Ill., 2018)
  Secured dismissal of U.C.C. Article 9 claims against secured lender following the plaintiff-debtor's default on a series of commercial credit obligations
  subsequent collateral replevin
  liquidation. (Berns v. State Bank of Herscher, Kankakee County, Ill. 2018)
  Prevailed
  achieved a dismissal, with prejudice, of a federal complaint for breach of contract
  statutory bad faith based on the claim-preclusive effect of a fully-paid appraisal award
  the existence of a bona fide dispute regarding post-award coverage. (70th Court Cond. Assn. v. Ohio Security Ins. Co., N.D. Ill., 2017)
  Obtained dismissal of a policyholder action for declaratory relief, breach of contract
  statutory bad faith relative to client's partial denial of the insured's claim for property damage related to a putative high wind
  hail event. (Far West Church of Christ v. Church Mut. Ins. Co., Cook County, Ill., 2017)
  Secured a substantial presuit settlement with an umpire who presided over a property insurance appraisal
  fraudulently concealed his pre-appraisal association
  representation of both the insured's public adjuster, as well as its appraiser. (Church Mut. Ins. Co. v. Confidential Umpire Defendant, 2016)