The plaintiff filed a wrongful death and survival action after her 17-year-old son was fatally shot in the parking lot of a university’s arena after a high school basketball game there.

A plaintiff suing the City of Chicago was denied recovery for injuries she suffered for falling into a five-foot-long pothole. Because she parked the back one-third of her car in a no-parking zone, she was not an “intended and permitted user” of the street.

In order to sustain a premises liability lawsuit based upon an unnatural accumulation of ice, a plaintiff must provide evidence that the condition was caused by the defendant and that the defendant knew of the dangerous condition.

On June 28, 2018, the First District Appellate Court of Illinois held that given evidence as to management, reduction of safety managers, overtime hours, and prior OSHA violations, the plaintiff sufficiently established proximate cause in a willful and wanton conduct personal injury claim based upon a negligent hiring theory.

Plaintiff was bicycling on Lakefront Trail, a shared-use path along the shore of Lake Michigan, when his front wheel got caught in a crack in the pavement. He fell and was injured.

On March 23, 2017, the Illinois Supreme Court affirmed a directed verdict in favor of defendants on supervisory immunity, holding there was no willful and wanton conduct involved in a school injury.

Plaintiff's suit for negligent property maintenance was properly decided by the trial court on summary judgment because no genuine issue of fact existed since plaintiff failed to satisfy the burden of proving constructive notice.

The Snow and Ice Removal Act (745 ILCS 75/0.01 et seq.) does not immunize property owners from claims of liability for injuries allegedly caused by icy sidewalks due to an otherwise negligent failure to maintain the premises or premise defects.

With no retroactive effect, the Snow Removal Service Liability Limitation Act aims to void contracts that are deemed against public policy for indemnifying service providers who remove snow and ice for private parties.

The second district affirmed a summary judgment ruling for the defendant over the plaintiff's claims that the pleadings established a question of material fact.

On May 21, 2015, the Illinois Supreme Court affirmed the general rule that, as a matter of law, suicide is an unforeseeable event that breaks the causal chain in both negligent and intentional torts