Ramirez v. FCL Builders, Inc.

2014 IL App (1st) 123663

Opinion

ILLINOIS OFFICIAL REPORTS Appellate Court

Ramirez v. FCL Builders, Inc., 2014 IL App (1st) 123663

Appellate Court TEODORO RAMIREZ, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. FCL BUILDERS, INC., Caption an Illinois Corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

District & No. First District, Fifth Division Docket No. 1-12-3663

Rehearing denied January 28, 2014 Modified opinion filed January 31, 2014

Held The award of $1.588 million in damages to a roofer for the back injury he (Note: This syllabus suffered while working for a roofing subcontractor on a large warehouse constitutes no part of project was upheld where the trial court did not err in denying defendant the opinion of the court general contractor’s motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict, but has been prepared notwithstanding the general contractor’s contentions that it had no by the Reporter of liability for plaintiff’s injuries and that the trial court gave improper Decisions for the instructions, made evidentiary errors, and failed to impose sanctions for convenience of the plaintiff’s discovery errors, since there was evidence of defendant’s reader.) vicarious and direct liability in connection with the performance of the work of moving materials in a safe manner, and none of the alleged trial errors deprived defendant of a fair trial to the extent that the verdict was affected.

Decision Under Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County, No. 08-L-6482; the Hon. Review Susan Zwick, Judge, presiding.