Proving yet again that honesty is the best policy, the 5th District Appellate Court recently considered whether a settlement with an unbeknownst dead man could be enforced by the decedent’s estate. In Robison v. Orthotic & Prosthetic Lab Inc., 2014 IL App (5th) 140079, about a month before the October 2013 trial in a product liability action, the plaintiff’s attorney initiated settlement negotiations. Trouble was, his client had died that January; the plaintiff’s attorney never told the defense …