We continue our analysis of the individual Justices’ voting records in insurance law cases with Chief Justice Burke.
During her tenure, the Chief Justice has sat on 24 civil cases involving insurer parties. She has split her votes down the middle: 12 votes for the insurer, 12 votes against. Those totals hold even when we
Today, we’re continuing our seven-part post analyzing the individual Justices’ voting records in civil cases involving insurer parties.
Justice Karmeier joined the Court in 2005. Since that time, he has supported the insurer’s position in 18 civil cases, while opposing the insurer in 14 cases. From 2005 to 2008, he voted for insurers in 11
Today, we address the voting record of Justice Thomas throughout his entire tenure on the Court in civil cases involving an insurer party. Since 2001, Justice Thomas has voted for insurers’ position in 23 civil cases while voting against insurers 20 times. From 2001 to 2010, Justice Thomas voted for insurers 18 times to 15
Last week, we began our seven-post series, reviewing each Justice’s voting record by the area of law involved – first up, insurance law cases.
In our first Table, we show Justice Kilbride’s year-by-year votes for and against the position of insurer parties in civil cases. Since 2001, Justice Kilbride has split his votes evenly –
Today, we begin a seven-post series, reviewing how each Justice has voted in insurer cases overall. First up is the Court’s senior Justice, Justice Rita Garman.
In our first table, we report Justice Garman’s votes for and against insurer parties in civil insurance law cases. Since 2001, Justice Garman has voted for insurers in twenty-three
Today, we’re reviewing the overall data for the most recent decade in the Court’s insurance law decisions. From 2010 to 2019, insurers won six and lost eight as parties to civil cases. They were 1-3 in 2010, 1-2 in 2013 and 0-2 in 2018, 1-0 in 2011, 2012 and 2019.
Insurers won virtually none of
We continue our review of the how insurers have fared at the Supreme Court, this time reviewing the years 2000 to 2009.
For the decade, insurers did reasonably well, winning nineteen cases while losing fourteen. Between 2005 and 2008, insurers won eleven cases while losing only five.
As we saw last time, defending wins from
Today we’re beginning a multi-part post, emphasizing how the insurance industry has fared over the past thirty years at the Illinois Supreme Court. Later this week, we’ll begin a similar series over at the California Supreme Court Review.
First, we report the most basic number of all – insurer parties’ won-lost record at the
Average votes to affirm for criminal cases from the Fifth District in 1990 was 4.22. The average was 5.5 in 1991, 0.6 in 1992, 2 in 1993, 3.2 in 1994, 7 in 1995, 4.33 in 1996, 4.67 in 1997, 2.33 in 1998 and 4 in 1999.
Average votes to affirm was 3.75 in 2000, 7
Today, we’re reviewing the yearly average votes to affirm decisions of the Fourth District in criminal cases. The average votes to affirm was zero in 1990, 7 in 1991, 5.25 in 1992, 2.33 in 1993, 4.25 in 1994, 2 in 1995, 1.33 in 1996, 2.56 in 1997, 5.5 in 1998 and 0.67 in 1999.
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