Hernon v. E.W. Corrigan Construction Co.

This interlocutory appeal involves the following certified question:

“If an action is based upon tort for an act or omission in the design, planning, supervision, observation or management of construction, or construction of an improvement to real property, is the cause of action for bodily injury which is pled either under common law negligence or the Structural Work Act but not filed within two years after the cause of action accrued barred by [section 13 — 202 of the Code of Civil Procedure]?”

On April 21, 1989, the plaintiff, Gerard Hernon, filed his two-count, first-amended complaint in…