Judge predicts Illinois high court would adopt duty to train- (This is part two of a two-part series. Part one published on Monday). A federal judge denied Supreme Trucking & Excavating’s request for summary judgment on TMS International’s contribution claim and predicted that the Illinois Supreme Court would.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Jurors in U.S. district court awarded $3,025,171.82 to former truck driver Steven Liss of Madison County on June 29, for injuries he suffered on the property of steel fabricator TMS International in Granite City.
Judge rejects argument on open and obvious defense in negligence suit- A line of Illinois Appellate Court opinions supported Steven Liss’s argument that the open and obvious defense didn’t apply to his tort claim against TMS International for an accident at its scrap metal facility because he alleged “pure negligence,”.