Illinois Appellate Court Upholds Lower Court Ruling
An Illinois appellate court for the Second District recently issued an opinion regarding a work-related negligence dispute. The facts of...
Illinois Appellate Court Rules City Cannot Be Held Liable
In a recent case, an Illinois appellate court in the Sixth Division considered the potential liability of an elevator contractor...
Appellate Court Upholds Lower Court Order
In a recent case from the Illinois Court of Appeals, Second District, the court was faced with deciding whether documents...
Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment for Storeowner
In a recent opinion from the Second District of the Appellate Court of Illinois, the plaintiff appealed a lower court’s...
Court Upholds Summary Judgment for City in Sinkhole Claim
In a recent case decided by the Sixth Division of the Illinois Appellate Court, the plaintiff alleged that he suffered...
Illinois Appellate Court Denies Appeal in Bus Accident Case
In a recent case, a plaintiff filed a complaint against a defendant, claiming that on September 21, 2013, she was...
Illinois Appellate Court Upholds Defense Verdict
In a recent case, a plaintiff filed a negligence action against a defendant, alleging that he sustained injuries during a multi-car...
Court Upholds Denial of Widow’s Claim for Lump Sum Payment
In a recent case, a claimant who was the widow of a deceased worker appealed an order from a lower...
Appellate Court Upholds Summary Judgment for Defendants
In a recent case, the plaintiff filed an appeal after a trial court issued an order granting summary judgment for...
Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal of Civil Action
The workers' compensation system is intended to provide benefits to employees who are injured during the course and scope of...
Court Reverses Summary Judgment for Property Owner
In Atchley v. University of Chicago Medical Center, the plaintiff was a delivery driver who was making a delivery of two...
Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment for City
In Corbett v. The County of Lake and The City of Highland Park, the plaintiff alleged that she sustained serious injuries...
Illinois Supreme Court Says Animal Control Act Doesn’t Apply
In Coe v. Lewsader, the plaintiffs brought an action against the defendants, pursuant to the Animal Control Act. During the course...
Appellate Court Upholds Summary Judgment in Boating Accident
In Schade v. Clausius, the Illinois Appellate Court for the First District considered an appeal in a negligence action in which...
Appellate Court Upholds Summary Judgment for Pool Owner
In Perez v. Heffron, the mother of a boy who drowned in a swimming pool accident appealed an order for the...
Appellate Court Orders Lower Court to Enter Verdict
In Claro v. DeLong, the plaintiff was driving a Honda Accord and was waiting at a red light when the defendant,...
Court Upholds Defense Verdict in Multi-Car Highway Collision
In Larkin v. George, the plaintiff alleged that he suffered injuries while traveling southbound on I-294 as a result of a multi-car...
Eighth Circuit Upholds Trucking Company’s Policy
Trucks are involved in an alarming number of accidents. Due to their massive size and weight, the collisions that they...
Summary Judgment for City in Pothole Trip and Fall Case
In the recent case of Barr v. Frausto, et al., the plaintiff filed a lawsuit against the defendants, including an individual...
Court Upholds Summary Judgment in Rear-End Collision
In the recent case of Peacock v. Waldeck, the plaintiff filed a complaint seeking damages for injuries she suffered in a...
Family Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Nursing Home
An Illinois family has commenced a wrongful death lawsuit against a nursing home, alleging that the facility's failure to exercise...
Distracted Driving and Pokemon Go
The popularity of the augmented reality game, Pokemon Go, has risen since its release earlier this year. Not just...
Therman Law, On Elevator Accidents and Injuries
Have you ever been on an elevator, and upon exiting, tripped over the floor? That’s what we call Elevator...
Swimming Park Liabilities
Arguably one of the best ways to spend summer days, or cool off after a hot day in the...
