Schmid v. Fairmont Hotel Company-Chicago

Plaintiff, Xaver Schmid, commenced this negligence action against defendants, Fairmont Hotel (Fairmont) and Marón Electric Company (Marón), to recover for an injury he sustained when he turned on a vanity light switch near the bathroom in his hotel room and received an electrical shock; contemporaneously, one of the vanity lights sparked, and plaintiff moved backwards, striking the bathroom door frame. At the time of the incident, in May of 1999, plaintiff was a cargo pilot for Lufthansa Airlines. He was subsequently diagnosed with an injury to his right shoulder and arm. Plaintiff alleged…