Bill Lindsay and Chris Pickett obtained summary judgment for our client by arguing that it qualified as a borrowing employer and was, therefore, immune from tort liability pursuant to the Worker’s Compensation Act. The plaintiff’s decedent, a repairman, was working on an overhead garage door when it unexpectedly opened, striking […]

Bill Lindsay: We obtained summary judgment in a trip/fall case where the plaintiff was employed by a tenant of an industrial property, and tripped on a defective stairway landing at the edge of a loading dock. Our client was the tenant on an adjoining property. We contended that the defective stairway […]

Bill Lindsay: Our client, a general contractor, was sued for wrongful death and survival following an industrial accident where the contractor had renovated a plastics factory, and allegedly failed to provide sufficient fire protection. The plaintiff’s decedent, a woman in her mid-forties with three children, burned to death when she dropped […]

Chris Pickett: We obtained summary judgment on the grounds that our client’s mold exclusion applied if mold was even a contributing factor to the underlying plaintiff’s alleged brain damage.

On February 20, 2015, the Illinois Supreme Court held that there is no public policy in Illinois prohibiting the rescission of an insurance policy as to insureds who were ignorant of misrepresentations made on the application. Illinois State Bar Ass’n Mut. Ins. Co. v. Law Office of Tuzzolino and Terpinas, 2015 […]