Pekin Insurance v. Recurrent Training Center, Inc.

Presiding Justice Quinn and Justice Neville concurred in the judgment and opinion.

OPINION

Plaintiff, Pekin Insurance Company, filed a complaint for declaratory judgment seeking a determination of whether it owed defendant Recurrent Training Center a duty to defend it in underlying litigation. The trial court found that plaintiff did not have a duty to defend Recurrent Training Center in the underlying actions. For the following reasons, we affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

In January 2006, Recurrent Training Center, which is located in Savoy, Illinois, trained Mark Turek on the operation of a Cessna 421 B…