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
Yesterday, we looked at the data for the number and type of insurance law cases the Court has decided, year-by-year, since 1990, as well as the insurers’ winning percentage in those cases. Today, we’re reviewing the individual Justices’ voting records in insurance law cases.
In Table 1065, we show yearly votes for insurer parties for
Today and tomorrow, we’re going to be taking a close look at how insurance companies have been doing since 1990 in appeals at the Supreme Court. Today, we’ll review the data about the types of cases the Court has heard, and insurers’ won-loss record year by year and overall, and tomorrow, we’ll be looking at
Last week, we reviewed the number of cases the Court has heard, year by year, in insurance and habeas corpus law. This week, we’re taking a deeper look at the Court’s cases in these two important areas of law.
For the entire period, only 39.14% of the Court’s insurance law cases were won by the
For the past two weeks, we’ve been looking at the Court’s government/administrative law and criminal sentencing cases. This week and next, we’re going to look at the Court’s insurance law cases on the civil side, and its habeas corpus cases on the criminal law side.
Between 1990 and 2017, the Court decided eighty-six insurance law