Miller v. Reynolds

Defendants, Robert and Eileen Reynolds, appeal from the judgment of the circuit court of Lake County entered on a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff, Margaret Miller, for $375,000 ($750,000 less 50% attributable to plaintiff’s negligence) in her action seeking recovery under a theory of negligence for injuries sustained in a fall while on a ladder on defendant’s premises at a time when plaintiff was employed by defendants as a domestic employee.

Defendants raise the following issues on appeal: (1) whether plaintiff’s claim is barred by the Workers’ Compensation Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch.…