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In a breach of fiduciary duty case involving three factions of feuding “partners” and a limited liability company (Combined Group LLC, or Combined) that was managed by a closely-held corporation (Combined Holding Group Inc., or CHG), the first question for the Illinois Appellate Court was whether a Cook County judge erred in ruling that Mark Oliver owed a fiduciary duty to Combined based on the fact that he was one of three equal shareholders in CHG.

Michael heard me yell out “come here quickly” and he ran the few steps from his home office into my home office. There on my computer screen were live pictures of Amy’s toilet, Robert flossing his teeth, and several other people upside down and right-side up.

Suppose Adam and Barbara, residents of Chicago, have two children: Cathy and David. Adam and Barbara both pass, and in their joint will they leave 80% of their estate to Cathy and 20% of their estate to David. David is shocked by this and he is sure that Cathy played a part in this.

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While most ERISA claims are heard in federal court, claims for benefits may also be brought in state court. The ERISA statute provides for concurrent jurisdiction in both the state and federal courts for benefits due under the terms of an employee benefit plan, although ERISA claims filed in state court are removable to federal court.

Before “social distancing” became the term de jure in insurance circles, the equally novel term “social inflation” and its corollary “nuclear verdicts” were used to describe the significant increase in verdicts across the country in a range of cases and in jurisdictions where such verdicts were not expected. There have been various explanations posited for this phenomenon.

With the pandemic blackout, local theaters (and theater critics) have had to come up with all kinds of alternatives to attract and keep their audiences.

If you’ve been trapped indoors with your significant other for what seems like an eternity, your secret schadenfreudian self may take some satisfaction in “The Lovebirds.”

When the International Olympic Committee made the difficult decision to postpone the 2020 Tokyo Games until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it also decided to keep the name of the event intact — “Tokyo 2020.”

This past week, I watched New York’s Irish Repertory Theatre and its streaming production of Brian Friel’s excellent play “Molly Sweeney,” which happily assured me that despite the country’s long shutdown and the blackout of Broadway, live theater will not only survive but continue to thrive during and after the coronavirus pandemic is history.

The NCAA has been under immense pressure since California enacted the Fair Pay to Play Act last September. With the act going into effect on Jan. 1, 2023, the NCAA has imposed a deadline to reevaluate its amateurism model and formulate a plan to either ease its absolute restriction of student athletes’ ability to profit from their name, image and likeness, or develop a strategy to strike down the Fair Pay to Play Act.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I, for one, have been spending such an extraordinary amount of time lately staring at my television, iPad, cell phone and computer that I am afraid I’m turning into a couch potato.