{"id":4879,"date":"2015-03-27T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=4879"},"modified":"2016-08-31T17:44:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T17:44:21","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-reinstates-product-liability-claim-distributor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-reinstates-product-liability-claim-distributor\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Reinstates Product-Liability Claim Against Distributor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois appellate court has reinstated a product-liability lawsuit against a distributor in which there was a default judgment against the manufacturer of the product. In this case, the manufacturer was not subject to jurisdiction, and the plaintiff wasn\u2019t able to satisfy the judgment. Nevertheless, the court ruled that the plaintiff may reinstate the lawsuit against the distributor.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, Jeff Chraca was unpacking a shipment of golf cart batteries. Chraca was employed by Chicago Battery Co. Chraca was lifting and carrying the batteries with the aid of a black strap that came with the shipment of batteries. The strap broke suddenly and Chraca wrenched one of his shoulders and his neck.<\/p>\n<p>Chraca filed a worker\u2019s compensation claim in 2011 and then filed a strict tort product-liability action against <a href=\"http:\/\/usbattery.com\/\">U.S. Battery<\/a> &#8212; the company that sent the batteries and the strap to Chraca\u2019s employer. However, U.S. Battery did not manufacture the strap; instead, it merely sent it along with the battery shipment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-reinstates-product-liability-claim-distributor\/#more-4879\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois appellate court has reinstated a product-liability lawsuit against a distributor in which there was a default judgment against the manufacturer of the product. In this case, the manufacturer was not subject to jurisdiction, and the plaintiff wasn\u2019t able to satisfy the judgment. Nevertheless, the court ruled that the plaintiff may reinstate the lawsuit [&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":[46,125,155,22,11,75,76,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-procedure","category-consumer-law","category-design-defects","category-illinois-civil-procedure","category-premises-liability","category-product-defect-litigation","category-product-liability","category-work-injuries"],"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 Reinstates Product-Liability Claim Against Distributor &#8212; 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