JOLIET, ILLINOIS — michael Trinca, The 34-year-old Wilmington driver is a former convicted drunk who Illinois State Police say caused a wrong-way crash on Interstate 55 last summer, killing… Kelly Anne Quinlan-Dubie And her husband ron doby, He now faces a civil suit from Allstate Insurance.
The lawsuit filed by the Walton Law Group in Chicago also names several other people, including estate managers for the two people who died as well as the legal guardians of their children who were also injured but survived last summer’s accident.
According to the lawsuit, Northbrook-based Allstate Insurance issued an insurance policy to criminal defendant Michael Trinca’s parents, Jerry and Mary Kay Trinca, for the time period from March 7 to September 7, 2023.
An Allstate attorney maintained an insurance policy for Michael Trinca’s parents that identified a 2010 Dodge Avenger and a 2005 Ford F150 truck as the vehicles covered by the policy. The policy indicated that bodily injury limits were $100,000 per person and $300,000 per accident.
That’s why Allstate went to Will County Circuit Court to pursue the lawsuit surrounding last summer’s head-on collision along Interstate 55 that killed Ron and Kelly Dube and resulted in Trinca being transported in handcuffs to the Will County Jail on July 12:
The 2019 F150 involved in the June 27 double-fatal crash was not an insured vehicle under an insurance policy held by the criminal defendant’s parents, court records show.
“The vehicle driven by Michael Trinca that was allegedly involved in the accident was not described in the policy advertisements,” Allstate’s attorney noted. “The vehicle involved in the accident was not owned by Jerry Trinca. The vehicle involved in the accident was not owned by Mary Kay Trinca.
The vehicle involved in the accident was owned by prison inmate Michael Trinca and the vehicle in which the accident occurred was available for the regular use of Michael Trinca.
Allstate’s attorney then noted that “Michael Trinca, the sole defendant in the underlying lawsuit, was not operating a vehicle insured under the policy at the time of the accident. There is no possibility of insurance coverage for Michael Trinca under the policy for the claims and damages alleged in the underlying lawsuit.”
Allstate’s attorney asked the Will County judge to grant Allstate more relief because Allstate has no obligation to defend or indemnify Michael Trinca for the claims or damages alleged in the underlying lawsuit.
Back on July 20, Juliet Patch reported that Michael Trinka, 33, a previously convicted drunk driver from Wilmington, now faces a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Juliet’s attorney Frank Cerveniak of Rathbun, Cerveniak & Kozol.
Cerviniak told Juliet Patch that Dobies and three of their children were backpacking to their home in Livingston County after dropping their fourth child off at a friend’s house for a sleepover.
“How does this ever happen?” Cherveniak said this last July after the lawsuit was filed. “How did he get on the wrong slope and keep going? That’s what’s really shocking. It’s scary.”
As for Michael Trinca, he remains behind bars in the Will County Jail, his place of residence since the Illinois State Police arrested him last July 12. Trinca’s private attorney tried to convince Will County Judge Carmen Goodman to use the SAFE-T-Act. to let Wilmington out of jail, but the judge continued to reject those arguments, ordering Trinca to remain in jail while he faces dozens of felony charges of aggravated driving under the influence with the Will County State’s Attorney’s Office.