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1.602 documents for duty to warn illinois

- No duty to warn, Illinois high court holds: the court reaffirms the rule that Party A has no duty to warn Party B about a threat posed by Party C unless there's a special relationship between A and B.
Someone with whom you used to do business has made threats against another of your former business associates, blaming that individual for ruining his...
- Illinois Bar Journal
- Vol. 95 Nbr. 11, November 2007
- The duty to warn against serious injury: can plaintiffs successfully challenge Illinois' tough standard?
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Illinois Supreme Court in Iseberg v Gross (1) addressed when a duty may be imposed on a party to warn or protect a person...
- Illinois Bar Journal
- Vol. 97 Nbr. 10, October 2009
- Paul Swearingen v. Momentive Specia, (7th Cir. 2011)
... for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. No. 10-cv-4470--...Swearingen a duty regarding the open and obvious hazard at issue. We... that Momentive breached the duty it owed to warn him of the risk associated with the lowpiping haza...
- Federal Circuits

- Illinois Supreme Court Applies Risk-Utility Analysis In Negligent Design Case And Refuses To Expand A Manufacturer's Postsale Duty To Warn In Reversal Of $43 Million Jury Verdict In Exploding Gas Tank Accident Case
In a significant victory for product manufacturers, the Illinois Supreme Court reversed a $43 million jury verdict against defendant Ford Motor Compan...
- Mondaq Business Briefing
- United States Law Articles in English
- Products Liability Update - May 2012 - Part 1
... federal law preempted state law failure to warn claims asserted against generic drug manufacturers... drug manufacturers have an ongoing federal duty of "sameness" regarding their labels – namely, t... ILLINOIS SUPREME COURT APPLIES RISK-UTILITY ANALYSIS IN NEG...
- Mondaq Business Briefing
- United States Law Articles in English
- Altria Group, Inc. v. Good, 555 U. S. ____ (2008)
..., because the claim alleged a violation of a duty not to deceive—a duty that is not “based on”... recast respondents’ claim as a failure-to-warn or warning neutralization claim of the kind pre-em... case sought to bring a claim under the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Ac...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Water Sports and Recreational Liability Issues (Come On in, the Water's Fine!)[Dagger]
Taking a vacation is a quintessential American activity. Unfortunately, when vacationing tourists get hurt or injured, they engage in litigation. Lawsuits over water sports and recreational liability issues have proliferated over the past decades. This article will discuss some of the different types of cases that arise, various legal theories propounded by plaintiffs, common defenses asserted by defendants, statutory protections afforded by legislatures, special considerations for different types of defendants, and strategies in defending such cases. The most typical types of legal theories arising in such lawsuits include negligence, duty to warn and attractive nuisance. On the other hand, defendants seek to limit the extent of their duties and to interpose various defense theories su...

...Rygg's injuries. In Illinois, plaintiffs sued the owner of a dam near where min...
- FDCC Quarterly
- Vol. 56 Nbr. 4, July 2006
- Scott Birchler and Sandy Birchler, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Gehl Company, Defendant-Appellee., 88 F.3d 518 (7th Cir. 1996)
... requested a jury instruction on a continuing duty to warn, alleging that Gehl became aware of the ha...Had we found that Illinois law favored the appellants, we would not have been...
- Federal Circuits
- Pharmacists and the 'duty' to dispense emergency contraceptives.
... and the attorney for several southern Illinois pharmacists suspended without pay from their jobs ...Where pharmacists assume the duty to warn of contraindications from computerized patient med...
- Issues in Law & Medicine
- Vol. 23 Nbr. 3, March 2008
- R.C. Wegman Construc v. Admiral Ins, (7th Cir. 2011)
... for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. No. 08 C 6479--J... Admiral discharged the implied contractual duty of good faith that insurance companies owe their i... Admiral Policy limits." Admiral failed to warn Wegman of this possibility. Had it done so, Wegman...
- Federal Circuits