{"id":3638,"date":"2014-05-16T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=3638"},"modified":"2019-10-28T10:34:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T10:34:58","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-affirms-dismissal-trial-courts-decision-dismissing-condominium-association-lawsuit-contractors-defective-construction-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-dismissal-trial-courts-decision-dismissing-condominium-association-lawsuit-contractors-defective-construction-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal of Trial Court\u2019s Decision Dismissing Condominium Association Lawsuit Against Contractors for Defective Construction Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- [if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The plaintiff, Michigan Indiana Condominium Association, is a 119-unit residential condominium complex (the \u201cComplex\u201d).\u00a0 Optima was the general contractor and selected a variety of subcontractors to do the construction work.\u00a0 Construction was completed in June 2002.\u00a0 One of the contractors was Jenni and Loucon.\u00a0 Loucon was the masonry contractor. \u00a0On Sept. 2, 2003, Loucon was dissolved as an Illinois corporation.\u00a0 Jenni was likewise dissolved on Jan. 1, 2006.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In the spring of 2010, the plaintiffs discovered latent defects in the Complex.\u00a0 On Aug. 29, 2011, the plaintiffs filed a complaint for damages against Optima and other defendants.\u00a0 Plaintiffs sought damages under breach of implied warranty of habitability and breach of implied warranty of good workmanship.\u00a0 Optima added as third-party defendants Jenni and Loucon as well as others.\u00a0 Optima alleged breach of contract and breach of implied warranties against Jenni and Loucon.\u00a0 Optima sought indemnification and contribution.\u00a0 Because both corporations had been dissolved, Optima served its notice upon the Secretary of State pursuant to Section 5.25 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ilga.gov\/legislation\/ilcs\/ilcs3.asp?ActID=2273&amp;ChapterID=65\">Illinois Business Corporation Act<\/a> of 1983 (805 ILCS 5\/1.01 <i>et seq<\/i>.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Jenni and Loucon moved jointly to dismiss Optima\u2019s third-party complaint pursuant to Section 2-615(a)(5) and (a)(9) of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. \u00a0Jenni and Loucon argued that since the third-party action against them was initiated more than 5 years after their dissolution (it was 6 years and 3 months after Jenni\u2019s dissolution and 8 years and 8 months after Loucon\u2019s dissolution), the Illinois Secretary of State was not authorized to act as the dissolved corporation\u2019s agent under the Act.\u00a0 Accordingly, they argued that service of summons on each was improper, and the court lacked personal jurisdiction.\u00a0 On Nov. 29, 2012, the Circuit Court judge granted Jenni\u2019s and Loucon\u2019s joint motion to dismiss and dismissed them with prejudice. This appeal was taken by Optima.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-dismissal-trial-courts-decision-dismissing-condominium-association-lawsuit-contractors-defective-construction-work\/#more-3638\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plaintiff, Michigan Indiana Condominium Association, is a 119-unit residential condominium complex (the \u201cComplex\u201d).\u00a0 Optima was the general contractor and selected a variety of subcontractors to do the construction work.\u00a0 Construction was completed in June 2002.\u00a0 One of the contractors was Jenni and Loucon.\u00a0 Loucon was the masonry contractor. \u00a0On Sept. 2, 2003, Loucon was [&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":[41,49,77,133,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breach-of-contract","category-business-litigation","category-construction-contracts","category-contract-litigation","category-indemnification-claims"],"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 Affirms Dismissal of Trial Court\u2019s Decision Dismissing Condominium Association Lawsuit Against Contractors for Defective Construction Work &#8212; 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