{"id":1596,"date":"2013-06-24T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2019-10-28T10:33:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T10:33:06","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-sets-out-spoliation-of-evidence-rules-kilburg-v-zante-et-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-sets-out-spoliation-of-evidence-rules-kilburg-v-zante-et-al\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Sets Out Spoliation of Evidence Rules; Kilburg v. Zante, et al."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Plaintiff Joyce Kilburg was injured while she was a passenger in a taxicab.<span>\u00a0<\/span>She filed a lawsuit claiming negligence and spoliation of evidence against defendants, which included the driver of the Zante Cab Co. taxi, Taxi Medallion Management, Inc. (Taxi Medallion), Taxi Affiliation Services, LLC (Taxi Affiliation) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org\/pages\/2912.html\">Wolley Cab Association<\/a> (Wolley).<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On the defendants\u2019 motion under <a href=\"http:\/\/codes.lp.findlaw.com\/ilstatutes\/735\/5\/II\/2-615\">Illinois Code of Procedure \u00a72-615<\/a>, the spoliation claims were dismissed.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The plaintiff appealed, arguing that the trial judge erred in dismissing the spoliation claims because her complaint sets forth sufficient facts to show that defendants had a duty to preserve the evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In this case, on Oct. 6, 2009, Kilburg was injured when a taxi in which she was a passenger left the roadway and crashed into a tree.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Zante was the owner of the taxi.<span>\u00a0<\/span>On Oct. 8, 2009, Zante towed the taxi to a lot on Elston Avenue in Chicago.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Taxi Medallion leased the lot and stored taxis there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-sets-out-spoliation-of-evidence-rules-kilburg-v-zante-et-al\/#more-1596\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plaintiff Joyce Kilburg was injured while she was a passenger in a taxicab.\u00a0She filed a lawsuit claiming negligence and spoliation of evidence against defendants, which included the driver of the Zante Cab Co. taxi, Taxi Medallion Management, Inc. (Taxi Medallion), Taxi Affiliation Services, LLC (Taxi Affiliation) and Wolley Cab Association (Wolley).\u00a0 On the defendants\u2019 motion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,5,46,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-accidents","category-car-accidents","category-civil-procedure","category-personal-injury"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Appellate Court Sets Out Spoliation of Evidence Rules; Kilburg v. 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