( January 15, 2025, 1:28 PM EST) -- CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Jan. 14 affirmed a lower federal court’s ruling in favor of hospital in a professional liability insurer’s lawsuit seeking a declaratory judgment that an underlying $1 million settlement between the hospital and its software consulting company insured offsets a $750,000 judgment that was entered against its insured in the underlying lawsuit, finding that the underlying judgment creates a new liability for which the hospital can seek additional recovery....