{"id":110,"date":"2013-04-01T18:43:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T18:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2021-12-21T20:05:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T20:05:58","slug":"no-duty-to-defend-or-indemnity-city-for-class-action-seeking-refund-of-fees-wrongfully-collected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/no-duty-to-defend-or-indemnity-city-for-class-action-seeking-refund-of-fees-wrongfully-collected\/","title":{"rendered":"No duty to defend or indemnify City for class action seeking refund of fees wrongfully collected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/attorneys.html?Attorney=Graham\">Chris Graham<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/attorneys.html?Attorney=Kelly\">Joseph Kelly<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar&#95;case?case=2579071221115452788&amp;hl=en&amp;lr=lang&#95;en&amp;as&#95;sdt=2,14&amp;as&#95;vis=1&amp;oi=scholaralrt\">Onebeacon America Ins. Co. v. City of Granite City, et al, Case No. 12-CV-0156-DRH-DGW (S.D. Ill. Feb. 13, 2013)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Insurer granted summary judgment that it had no duty to defend or indemnify City of Granite City for underlying class action suit seeking return of car towing fees wrongfully collected.  Court cited <em>Level 3 Commc\u2019ns v. Fed Ins. co.<\/em>, 272 F. 3d 908 (7<sup>th<\/sup> Cir. 2001) and <em>Ryerson Inc. v. Fed. Ins. Co.<\/em>, 676 F.3d 610 (7<sup>th<\/sup> Cir. 2012) for the principle that suits seeking \u201crestoration or an ill-gotten gain\u201d, like this suit, aren\u2019t a \u201closs\u201d within the meaning of an insurance contract.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Chris Graham and Joseph Kelly Onebeacon America Ins. Co. v. City of Granite City, et al, Case No. 12-CV-0156-DRH-DGW (S.D. Ill. Feb. 13, 2013) Insurer granted summary judgment that it had no duty to defend or indemnify City of Granite City for underlying class action suit seeking return of car towing fees wrongfully collected. [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3228,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/3228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}