O'Loughlin v. Servicemaster Co. Limited Partnership

Plaintiff was a painter employed by a school district. Defendants were management services contractors, hired by the district to manage the department in which plaintiff was employed. In the circuit court of Cook County, plaintiff filed suit against defendants after falling from a scaffold. The circuit court dismissed the suit on the ground that defendants were a borrowing employer of plaintiff and that his complaint was barred. Plaintiff appealed, and we now reverse and remand.

FACTS

Plaintiff, James M. O’Loughlin, was a summer employee of East Maine School District 63 (the school), of Des…