{"id":4380,"date":"2014-10-31T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=4380"},"modified":"2014-10-30T09:25:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T14:25:52","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-affirms-ruling-vacate-4-25-million-wrongful-death-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-ruling-vacate-4-25-million-wrongful-death-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Ruling to Vacate $4.25 Million Wrongful-Death Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"

A wrongful-death verdict that was vacated by a trial judge was affirmed on appeal by the Illinois Appellate Court<\/a>. The jury\u2019s verdict of $4.25 million was reached in a wrongful-death trial awarded to the family of a woman killed in a highway crash. But the trial judge vacated the verdict after it was revealed that the woman was married and that her parents and siblings were not her heirs under Illinois law. The judge would not let the woman\u2019s husband file an amended complaint finding that he engaged in fraud with the woman\u2019s family.<\/p>\n

In an opinion that covered 107 pages written by Justice Robert E. Gordon<\/a>, the panel found that the trial court was correct in vacating that verdict. But in a partial reversal, the panel will allow the woman\u2019s husband to file an amended complaint.<\/p>\n

The parents and eight siblings of 28-year-old Hawa Sissoko sued Alfred C. Baggiani and Roadway Express,<\/a> the driver and owner of the semi-trailer that struck and killed Sissoko in 2007. She was standing behind her car in the right lane of the Indiana Toll Road<\/a> outside Chesterton, Ind.<\/a>, when the accident occurred.<\/p>\n

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