Sims v. Teepak, Inc.

In this appeal we are asked to construe section 2 — 621 of the Code of Civil Procedure (the Code) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 110, par. 2 — 621) where an employee who had already obtained a workers’ compensation award filed a products liability action against his employer. That suit essentially sought to discover the manufacturer of the machine upon which he sustained his job-related injuries.

The plaintiff, Edward Sims, was injured on April 1, 1983, while operating a E C. Evaporator machine at the defendant’s Danville plant. He filed a claim pursuant to the Workers’ Compensation Act (the Act)…