Gleim v. Roberts

PRESIDING JUSTICE CUNNINGHAM

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is a wrongful death case in which an interlocutory appeal was taken by the defendants, Yellow Transportation, Inc. (Yellow Transportation), and its employee-driver, Demetrio Roberts (Roberts), from an order of the circuit court of Cook County determining that Illinois law, not Indiana law, applies to the damages at issue. Illinois law applies no caps on the damages at issue while Indiana law does impose caps in some circumstances. The plaintiffs include the three administrators of the estates of three decedents who died when…