{"id":4877,"date":"2015-03-06T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=4877"},"modified":"2015-03-05T15:34:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T21:34:38","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-affirms-jurys-verdict-truck-crash-icy-indiana-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-jurys-verdict-truck-crash-icy-indiana-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Jury\u2019s Verdict in Truck Crash on Icy Indiana Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Appellate Court has affirmed a defense verdict in a multi-vehicle crash on an icy Indiana highway that caused severe injuries to motorists. The big issue in the case was which state\u2019s law should be applied at a Cook County Circuit Court jury trial.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 26, 2007, Clifford Ruse, a truck driver for Harvey, Ill.-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quicktransportsolutions.com\/truckingcompany\/illinois\/envirite-of-illinois-inc-usdot-670850.php\">Envirite of Illinois Inc.<\/a> was driving eastbound on Interstate 80\/94 in Hammond, Ind., when he was struck by an SUV whose driver had lost control on a patch of black ice.<\/p>\n<p>Ruse swerved his truck to the left and hit the highway\u2019s median wall. On impact, the container of mill dust in tow was detached from his truck and that container crossed into the westbound lanes of the interstate highway. The plaintiff in the case, Daniel Kovera, was one of several drivers injured when the container landed on their cars. In March 2008, Kovera and his wife filed a lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Ill.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-jurys-verdict-truck-crash-icy-indiana-highway\/#more-4877\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Appellate Court has affirmed a defense verdict in a multi-vehicle crash on an icy Indiana highway that caused severe injuries to motorists. The big issue in the case was which state\u2019s law should be applied at a Cook County Circuit Court jury trial. On Dec. 26, 2007, Clifford Ruse, a truck driver for [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[91,45,5,46,150,149,22,71,111,73,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appellate-procedure","category-auto-accidents","category-car-accidents","category-civil-procedure","category-evidence","category-head-on-crash","category-illinois-civil-procedure","category-jury-instructions","category-semi-trailer-truck-accidents","category-trial-practice","category-truck-accidents"],"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 Jury\u2019s Verdict in Truck Crash on Icy Indiana Highway &#8212; 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