{"id":2419,"date":"2013-11-29T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2019-10-17T10:52:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T10:52:33","slug":"illinois-court-chooses-widen-traveling-employee-theory-death-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-court-chooses-widen-traveling-employee-theory-death-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Court Chooses Not to Widen Traveling Employee Theory in Death Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Illinois Appellate Court has affirmed a partial summary judgment order for a defendant in a head-on crash and death case.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>This case arose out of a collision in which the car driven by Jeffrey Pister was struck head-on by an employee of the defendant, Matrix Service Industrial Contractors.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>At the time of the crash in April 2009, the Matrix driver, Brian Stultz, was nearing his destination in Champaign, Ill.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Stultz was scheduled to work there later that morning for Matrix.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Stultz and Jeffrey Pister were killed in the collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Jeffrey\u2019s widow, Tisha Pister, filed a third-amended complaint against Matrix and the Estate of Brian Stultz.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The Estate of Stultz was not part of the appeal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In the lawsuit, the Pister family claimed that Matrix was liable for Jeffrey\u2019s death under the doctrine of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Respondeat_superior\">respondeat superior<\/a>.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/i>Pister asserted two theories:<span>\u00a0 <\/span>(1) Brian was a \u201ctraveling employee\u201d of Matrix, on which the court, before the trial granted summary judgment for Matrix, and (2) Brian was on a \u201cspecial errand\u201d for Matrix at the time of the crash.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The jury returned a verdict in favor of Matrix on Pister\u2019s \u201cspecial errand\u201d theory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-court-chooses-widen-traveling-employee-theory-death-case\/#more-2419\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Appellate Court has affirmed a partial summary judgment order for a defendant in a head-on crash and death case.\u00a0 This case arose out of a collision in which the car driven by Jeffrey Pister was struck head-on by an employee of the defendant, Matrix Service Industrial Contractors.\u00a0 At the time of the crash [&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":[91,45,7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appellate-procedure","category-auto-accidents","category-work-injuries","category-wrongful-death"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Court Chooses Not to Widen Traveling Employee Theory in Death Case &#8212; 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