Malorney v. B & L Motor Freight, Inc.

This is an interlocutory appeal pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 308 (87 Ill. 2d R. 308) by defendant B & L Motor Freight, Inc. (B & L), from a trial court order denying its motion for summary judgment. This court granted defendant’s motion for leave to appeal upon certification of the issue by the trial court. The issue certified is whether defendant had a duty under the circumstances of this case to investigate Edward Harbour’s nonvehicular criminal record and to verify his negative response regarding criminal offenses which he furnished on his employment application prior to employing him…