Supreme Court of Illinois

In a suit for fraudulent and negligent misrepresentation arising from defendants' failure to tell plaintiff that their son, plaintiff's fiance, was infected with HIV, jury verdict in favor of plaintiff is vacated where the tort of fraudulent misrepresentation is not appropriately expanded to this purely personal setting.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/03/2008
• Published 04/03/2008

Judges

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alyssa M. Campbell, C. Barry Montgomery, Barry L. Kroll, Williams Montgomery & John Ltd., and Hall Adams III, Chicago, for appellant., Christopher C. Dickinson, Jenner & Block LLP, Ann Hilton Fisher, Chicago, for amicus curiae Aids Legal Council of Chicago.


• For Appellees:
  
• David A. Novoselsky and Leslie J. Rosen, Chicago, for appellee.