In this handbook, Illinois attorneys explain the most common tort actions across five areas: pleadings, intentional torts, personal injury, federal claims, and injunctions. Each chapter provides a sample complaint for a different cause of action and a checklist of the information needed to complete it, guiding the practitioner through the elements and pleading requirements, controlling law, relevant standard jury instructions, applicable statutes of limitations, the parties, special considerations, remedies/special issues, affirmative defenses specific to the cause of action, and related actions. Over 30 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 — Pleading
Ehsan Eftekhari, Eftekhari Law Offices LLC, Evanston
Part II — Intentional Torts
Chapter 2 — Assault and Battery
Bret P. Coale, Hughes Tenney Postlewait Coale, L.L.C., Decatur
Chapter 3 — Defamation
Daniel S. Kirschner, Corboy & Demetrio, Chicago
Chapter 4 — Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
Robert R. Duncan and David C. Flosi, Duncan Law Group, LLC, Chicago
Chapter 5 — Medical Battery
Amelia S. Buragas, Illinois State University, Bloomington
Part III — Personal Injury
Chapter 6 — Aviation
Daniel S. Kirschner and William T. Gibbs, Corboy & Demetrio, Chicago
Chapter 7 — Civil Conspiracy
Michael K. Muldoon, Muldoon & Muldoon, LLC, Chicago
Chapter 8 — Construction
Melanie J. VanOverloop, Rapoport Sims Perry & VanOverloop, P.C., Chicago
Chapter 9 — Dog Bite
John A. Bruegger, Parafinczuk Wolf, Boca Raton, FL
Chapter 10 — Dramshop
Conrad C. Nowak, Corboy & Demetrio, Chicago
Chapter 11 — Loss of Consortium
Kenneth T. Lumb, Corboy & Demetrio, Chicago
Chapter 12 — Motor Vehicle Actions: Automobiles and Heavy Trucks
John A. Bruegger, Parafinczuk Wolf, Boca Raton, FL
Chapter 13 — Motor Vehicle Actions: Railroad
Timothy J. Cavanagh, Marc McCallister, and Christopher H. Dietmann, Cavanagh Sorich Law Group, Chicago
Chapter 14 — Negligence: General
David R. Gray, Jr., Gray Law Offices, Chicago
Chapter 15 — Negligence: Professional — Medical Malpractice
Lawrence R. Kream, Chicago
Chapter 16 — Negligence: Professional — Legal Malpractice
David N. Damick, The Law Offices of David N. Damick, St. Louis, MO
Chapter 17 — Negligence: Professional — Accountant Malpractice
Charles C. Hughes and Bret P. Coale, Hughes Tenney Postlewait 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
Conrad C. Nowak, Corboy & Demetrio, Chicago
Chapter 21 — Premises Liability: Against Business Owner
Ehsan Eftekhari, Eftekhari Law Offices LLC, Evanston
Chapter 22 — Premises Liability: Against Landlord
Mitchell W. Bild and Collin J. Gill, Corboy & Demetrio, Chicago
Chapter 23 — Strict Products Liability
Matthew S. Sims, Rapoport Sims Perry & VanOverloop, P.C, Chicago
Chapter 24 — Railroad — FELA, Safety Appliance Act, Locomotive Inspection Act, Etc.
Jay Koehler and Kristen A. Cooke, Swanson, Martin & Bell, LLP, Chicago
Chapter 25 — Electrical Injuries
Lawrence R. Kream, Chicago
Chapter 26 — Spoliation of Evidence
Nicholas P. Kelly and Kathleen B. McGivney, Wallace Miller, Chicago
Chapter 27 — Nursing Home Care
Michael F. Bonamarte IV and Andrew J. Thut, Thut Law Group, Chicago
Chapter 28 — Damages to Personal Property
John A. Bruegger, Parafinczuk Wolf, Boca Raton, FL
Chapter 29 — Child Sexual Abuse
Molly C. Wells, Wallace Miller, Chicago
Part IV — Federal Claims
Chapter 30 — Federal Actions in Illinois State Courts
John A. Bruegger, Parafinczuk Wolf, Boca Raton, 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
