Handzel v. Kane-Miller Corp.

This is an appeal from a negligence action filed by the plaintiff Rozalia Handzel, individually and as special administrator of the estate of Andrej Handzel. The plaintiff seeks damages from the defendants Kane-Miller Corporation, d/b/a American Meat Packing Company, and Oleksander Kobylacryk, both individually and as authorized agent, for the heart attack and subsequent death of her husband, Andrej Handzel. The circuit court granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 110, par. 2—619) on the grounds that the exclusive remedy provision of the Illinois Workers’…