In this handbook updated for 2022, Illinois attorneys explain the most common tort actions across five areas: pleadings, intentional torts, personal injury, federal claims, and injunctions. Each chapter provides a guide to the elements and pleading requirements, controlling law, relevant standard jury instructions, applicable statutes of limitations, the parties, special considerations, remedies/special issues, a checklist for the complaint, affirmative defenses specific to the cause of action, related actions, and a sample complaint. Thirty different causes of action are explained, including assault and battery, aviation, child sexual abuse, construction, damages to personal property, defamation, dog bite, dramshop, medical battery, motor vehicle, premises and products liability, professional negligence, and nursing home care.
Part I — Pleadings
Chapter 1 — Pleadings
Ehsan Eftekhari, Eftekhari Law Offices LLC, Evanston
Part II — Intentional Torts
Chapter 2 — Assault and Battery
Bret P. Coale,Hughes Tenney Postlewaite Coale, L.L.C., Decatur, Jade D. Kline, Rural King, Mattoon
Chapter 3 — Defamation
Daniel S. Kirschner, Corboy & Demetrio, Chicago
Chapter 4 — Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
Robert R. Duncan, Duncan Law Group, LLC, Chicago
Chapter 5 — Medical Battery
Amelia S. Buragas, Bloomington
Part III — Personal Injury
Chapter 6 — Aviation
Michael K. Demetrio and Thomas A. Demetrio, Corboy & Demetrio, Chicago
Chapter 7 — Civil Conspiracy
Michael K. Muldoon, Muldoon & Muldoon, LLC, Chicago
Chapter 8 — Construction
Melanie J. VanOverloop, Rapoport Weisberg & Sims, P.C., Chicago
Chapter 9 — Dog Bite
John A. Bruegger, Parafinczuk Wolf, P.A., Pembroke Pines, FL
Chapter 10 — Dramshop
Mary Beth O’Brien, Esp Kreuzer Cores LLP, Wheaton
Chapter 11 — Loss of Consortium
Kenneth T. Lumb, Corboy & Demetrio, Chicago
Chapter 12 — Motor Vehicle Actions: Automobiles and Heavy Trucks
Patricia A. Small, Barrett, Twomey, Broom, Hughes & Hoke, LLP, Carbondale
Chapter 13 — Motor Vehicle Actions: Railroad
Andrew J. Thut and Michael L. Shanahan, Levin & Perconti, Chicago
Chapter 14 — Negligence: General
David R. Gray Jr., Gray Law Offices, Chicago
Chapter 15 — Negligence: Professional — Medical Malpractice
Lawrence R. Kream, Law Office of Lawrence R. Kream, LLC, Chicago
Chapter 16 — Negligence: Professional — Legal Malpractice
David N. Damick, Law Offices of David N. Damick, St. Louis, MO
Chapter 17 — Negligence: Professional — Accountant Malpractice
Charles C. Hughes and Bret P. Coale, Hughes Tenney Postlewaite Coale, L.L.C., Decatur
Chapter 18 — Negligence: Professional — Real Estate Malpractice
David R. Gray Jr., Gray Law Offices, Chicago
Chapter 19 — Negligence: Professional — Appraiser Malpractice
David R. Gray Jr., Gray Law Offices, Chicago
Chapter 20 — Premises Liability: Against Landowner/Homeowner
Daniel M. Kotin, Tomasik Kotin Kasserman, LLC, Chicago
Chapter 21 — Premises Liability: Against Business Owner
Ehsan Eftekhari, Eftekhari Law Offices LLC, Evanston
Chapter 22 — Premises Liability: Against Landlord
Daniel M. Kotin, Tomasik Kotin Kasserman, LLC, Chicago
Chapter 23 — Strict Products Liability
Matthew S. Sims,Rapoport Weisberg & Sims, P.C., Chicago
Chapter 24 — Railroad — FELA, Safety Appliance Act, Locomotive Inspection Act, Etc.
Jay Koehler, Kristen A. Cooke, and Madison C. Shepley, Swanson, Martin & Bell, LLP, Chicago
Chapter 25 — Electrical Injuries
Lawrence R. Kream, Law Office of Lawrence R. Kream, LLC, Chicago
Chapter 26 — Spoliation of Evidence
Robert R. Duncan and Nicholas P. Kelly, Duncan Law Group, LLC, Chicago
Chapter 27 — Nursing Home Care
Michael F. Bonamarte, IV, Andrew J. Thut, and Michael L. Shanahan, Levin & Perconti, Chicago
Chapter 28 — Damages to Personal Property
John A. Bruegger, Parafinczuk Wolf, P.A., Pembroke Pines, FL
Chapter 29 — Child Sexual Abuse
Lindsey A. Shelton, Sixth Judicial Circuit of Illinois, Decatur
Part IV — Federal Claims
Chapter 30 — Federal Actions in Illinois State Courts
John A. Bruegger, Parafinczuk Wolf, P.A., Pembroke Pines, FL
Chapter 31 — The Federal Tort Claims Act
Kenneth T. Lumb, Corboy & Demetrio, Chicago
Part V — Injunctions
Chapter 32 — Injunctions
Bret P. Coale, Hughes Tenney Postlewaite Coale, L.L.C., Decatur, Jade D. Kline, Rural King, Mattoon
