Supreme Court of Illinois

In a wrongful death action based on negligence, dismissal based on lack of duty on the part of defendant is reversed and the matter remanded where, because of the special relationship between defendants and the decedent who was defendants' business invitee, the defendants owed the decedent a duty of reasonable care.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/22/2006
• Published 06/22/2006

Judges

• Justice GARMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Karen L. Kendall, Craig L. Unrath, Peoria, Douglas J. Pomatto and Scott G. Salemi, Rockford, all of Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, for appellants., Michael Resis and Glen E. Amundsen, of O'Hagan, Smith & Amundsen, L.L.C., Chicago, for amicus curiae Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel., Kirsten M. Dunne, of Goldberg, Weisman & Cairo, Ltd., Chicago, for amicus curiae Illinois Trial Lawyers Association., Anthony Sanders, Chicago, Deborah J. La Fetra and Timothy Sandefur, Sacramento, California, for amicus curiae Pacific Legal Foundation.


• For Appellees:
  
• William T. Cacciatore and Eileen J. McCabe, Rockford, for appellee.