American Family Insurance v. Village Pontiac-GMC, Inc.

PRESIDING JUSTICE REINHARD

delivered the opinion of the court:

American Family Insurance Company, Farmers Insurance Company and William and Nancy Gill, plaintiffs, appeal from the orders of the circuit court of Du Page County which granted Village Pontiac-GMC, Incorporated’s, and General Motors Corporation’s, defendants’, motions for sanctions pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 219 (134 Ill. 2d R. 219) and summary judgment.

Plaintiffs essentially raise two issues on appeal: (1) whether the trial court erred in barring evidence as a sanction pursuant to Graves v. Daley (1988), 172 Ill. App. 3d 35,…