Legal Opinion
Clarendon National Insurance v. Medina
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 13, 2011No. 10-1943PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TINDER, Circuit Judge.
The trailer of Guillermo Medina’s semi-truck jackknifed across the center line of a slippery road while he was making a delivery of shingles for Town Trucking Company, a federally licensed motor carrier. The wayward trailer struck a pickup truck and killed its driver, Michael Walter Schulman. Schulman’s parents, as administrators of his estate, brought a wrongful death and survival action in Illinois state court against Town; Guillermo; and Guillermo’s wife, Maria Medina, the titular owner of the truck Guillermo was driving at the time of the accident. The suit settled.…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Steinberg v. Chicago Medical SchoolIllinois Supreme Court · 1977
- Hobbs v. Hartford Ins. Co. of the MidwestIllinois Supreme Court · 2005
- Mohanty v. St. John Heart Clinic, S.C.Illinois Supreme Court · 2006
- Rich v. Principal Life InsuranceIllinois Supreme Court · 2007
- State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. VillicanaIllinois Supreme Court · 1998
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