Ramirez v. FCL Builders, Inc. ( 2014 )

ILLINOIS OFFICIAL REPORTS
Appellate Court
Ramirez v. FCL Builders, Inc., 2014 IL App (1st) 123663
Appellate Court TEODORO RAMIREZ, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. FCL BUILDERS, INC.,
Caption an Illinois Corporation, Defendant-Appellant.
District & No. First District, Fifth Division
Docket No. 1-12-3663
Rehearing denied January 28, 2014
Modified opinion filed January 31, 2014
Held The award of $1.588 million in damages to a roofer for the back injury he
(Note: This syllabus suffered while working for a roofing subcontractor on a large warehouse
constitutes no part of project was upheld where the trial court did not err in denying defendant
the opinion of the court general contractor’s motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict,
but has been prepared notwithstanding the general contractor’s contentions that it had no
by the Reporter of liability for plaintiff’s injuries and that the trial court gave improper
Decisions for the instructions, made evidentiary errors, and failed to impose sanctions for
convenience of the plaintiff’s discovery errors, since there was evidence of defendant’s
reader.)
vicarious and direct liability in connection with the performance of the
work of moving materials in a safe manner, and none of the alleged trial
errors deprived defendant of a fair trial to the extent that the verdict was
affected.
Decision Under Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County, No. 08-L-6482; the Hon.
Review Susan Zwick, Judge, presiding.