January 02, 2020
A professional hockey player has reached a settlement with the Federal Professional Hockey League in a lawsuit seeking to enforce an $800,000 default judgment in a suit over an on-ice injury that left him blind in one eye, according to filings in Illinois federal court.
March 28, 2019
An insurance company isn't liable for an $800,000 default judgment won by a blinded ex-Federal Hockey League player because the FHL's former commissioner failed to give the insurer reasonable notice of the player's lawsuit, an Illinois federal judge ruled Thursday.
September 12, 2017
An Illinois federal judge Tuesday said she would not rethink her decision to keep an insurance broker from escaping a partially blinded hockey player's insurance coverage lawsuit, saying a recent Seventh Circuit decision cited by the broker does not help its cause.
November 04, 2016
A blinded hockey player suing an insurance broker for the Federal Hockey League LLC asked an Illinois federal judge on Friday not to grant the insurance broker's request to reconsider the decision that the hockey player is owed insurance coverage.
October 17, 2016
The company that brokered the Federal Hockey League insurance policy that has left a partially blinded player scrambling for coverage asked an Illinois federal court on Friday to rethink its ruling keeping the suit alive, saying the court misapplied precedent to expand the duties of insurance producers in the state.
September 19, 2016
The company that brokered the Federal Hockey League policy that has left one partially blinded player scrambling for insurance coverage may be held liable if it is found that the policy doesn't cover the player's injury, an Illinois federal judge ruled Monday.
March 28, 2016
A pro hockey player told an Illinois federal court Friday that an insurance company cannot escape his coverage suit over an on-ice injury that blinded him in one eye, because the company helped broker the policy issued to the Federal Hockey League, which believed such accidents were covered.
February 19, 2016
The David Agency Insurance Inc. asked an Illinois federal judge on Thursday to dismiss with prejudice a pro hockey player's claim that the company owes him for an on-ice injury that left him blind in one eye, arguing that it never issued a policy to the player's employer, Federal Hockey League LLC.
February 05, 2016
A professional hockey player suing the Federal Hockey League and its insurer in Illinois federal court over an eye injury he suffered on the ice added claims against the agency that sold the FHL its insurance policy Thursday, saying it let the league believe such accidents would be covered.
January 04, 2016
An Illinois insurance agency said it was not liable for an $800,000 default judgment against the professional Federal Hockey League for injuries sustained by a player that caused him to lose vision in one eye, in a bid to escape the suit filed Monday.