⚖ Oral Arguments, with Context

Corrosion Monitoring Services seeks insurance coverage for a customer's lawsuit and expenses from its owner's criminal case. The company inspected power-plant air heaters; customer Ingredion sued over alleged damage to its equipment. Prosecutors separately accused company owner Steve Turner of deliberately damaging tubes to win repair work; he disputed the accusation. Turner later pleaded guilty to misprision—concealing knowledge of a felony—and obstruction, not to a property-damage charge. Cincinnati Insurance won a district-court ruling that it owed no coverage, and the company appealed. Illinois's eight-corners rule generally compares the civil complaint with the insurance policy to decide whether the insurer must defend. The appeal asks how that rule applies to Ingredion's lawsuit and whether the company's criminal-case payments are covered losses.

Cincinnati Insurance Company v. Corrosion Monitoring Services, Inc. (No. 26-1082) — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, argued September 23, 2026.