Illinois Appellate Court
Civil Court
Insurance
Hotel guests lost jewelry and cash they placed in a safe in their hotel room, and settled with hotel and its primary and excess insurers for $1 million. Excess carrier and hotel sued primary carrier to recover the amounts they had paid in settlement. Hotel had possessory custody of jewelry and other valuables the guests left in their room, and protection of those valuables forms intrinsic part of hotel's work as innkeeper. Primary insurer provided limited coverage, and paid the limits it was obligated, thus owes no further duty to pay for guests' loss. (O'MARA FROSSARD and O'BRIEN, concurring.)