Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that 80 of its lawyers have been recognized by their peers for inclusion in the 2027 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that 80 lawyers are recognized in the 2026 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, with ten receiving this honor for the first time. Additionally, 22 Hinshaw lawyers are included in The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.

The national law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that 75 of the firm's lawyers have been selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. In addition, 30 Hinshaw lawyers were selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP partners Kevin R. Sido and Jennifer Kalas will present a webinar for the Illinois Society of Professional Engineers that will qualify for Indiana mandatory professional development hours on May 7, 2014.

The case is important for plan administrators because it highlights the need to focus on whether a claimant has a disabling condition and not merely a diagnosis within the benefit waiting period under the Policy. While a claimant’s conditions may develop within the elimination period, these conditions must result in functional limitations, not merely diagnoses. Further, the reasoning of this case provides a strong basis for a Plan to argue to the reviewing court that it can only look to a claimant’s condition during the benefit waiting period, and not the claimant’s condition beyond, even though it may have worsened into a disabling condition during the administrative review, but after the elimination period.

In Adkins v. Life Insurance Company of North America, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 37847 (E.D. Wash., March 1, 2021), a Washington district court blocked a plaintiff’s attempt to conduct discovery into the claim review history of an insurance company’s medical reviewer.

Hinshaw Thwarts Consumer's Attempt to Expand the Definition "Debt Collector" under FDCPA