Giardino v. American Family Insurance

The plaintiff, Peter Giardino, appeals from an order of the Circuit Court for the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit, Kane County, granting the defendant’s motion for summary judgment. The plaintiff contends on appeal that the trial court misinterpreted the insurance policy in question and asks this court to reverse the trial court’s order.

Inasmuch as .this court has previously set out the facts surrounding plaintiff’s accident and the ensuing trial (see Giardino v. Fierke (1987), 160 Ill. App. 3d 648), we move directly to a discussion of the procedural posture and legal issues of this particular…