Pickett v. Yellow Cab Co.

Plaintiff appeals from the dismissal of that portion of her amended complaint in which she sought damages for loss of her decedent’s society and companionship, arguing that these damages are available under the Structural Work Act (Act) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 48, par. 60 et seq.).

Plaintiff’s husband died as a result of injuries he sustained when he fell from a scaffold on which he had been working in connection with the construction and repair of a building in Northbrook, Illinois. Defendant was one of the construction contractors and is named in counts III and IV, which are pleaded under…