{"id":5125,"date":"2015-05-21T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=5125"},"modified":"2019-10-17T10:53:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T10:53:43","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-reverses-lake-county-ill-court-dismissal-of-wrongful-death-boating-accident-on-the-in-concert-theory-of-liability-and-negligent-infliction-of-emotional-di","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-reverses-lake-county-ill-court-dismissal-of-wrongful-death-boating-accident-on-the-in-concert-theory-of-liability-and-negligent-infliction-of-emotional-di\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Reverses Lake County, Ill., Court Dismissal of Wrongful Death Boating Accident on the \u201cIn-Concert\u201d Theory of Liability and Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Appellate Court for the Second District has reversed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lakecountyil.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Lake County<\/a>, Ill., dismissal of a personal-injury and wrongful-death claim against Rene Melbourn who was dismissed on motion under the <a href=\"http:\/\/codes.lp.findlaw.com\/ilstatutes\/735\/5\/II\/2-615\">Illinois Code of Civil Procedures, Section 2-615<\/a>, for failure to state a cause of action. The plaintiffs appealed the dismissal with prejudice of their second amendment complaint against Melbourn. The trial judge had found that the plaintiffs failed to state a claim for wrongful-death based on an \u201cin-concert\u201d theory of liability and the negligent infliction of emotional distress. Melbourn was the only defendant involved in the appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The facts of the case were that on Dec. 13, 2013, the Borcia family, including Antonio Borcia, was out boating and tubing on Lake County\u2019s Chain of Lakes. The defendant, Melbourn, was sued along with David Hatyina, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springlakemarina.com\/\">Spring Lake Marina Ltd.<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxwaterway.state.il.us\/\">Fox Waterway Agency<\/a> over the death of Antonio. In this boating accident, which killed Antonio, it was alleged that Melbourn was liable for in-concert liability for the wrongful death as well as negligent infliction of emotional distress for a bystander who witnessed the collision.<\/p>\n<p>The incident involved Hatyina\u2019s 29-foot cigarette boat, named \u201cPurple Haze,\u201d which struck and killed Antonio on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lake-link.com\/Illinois-Lake-Finder\/lake.cfm\/18128\/Petite-Lake-Lake-County-Illinois\/\">Petite Lake<\/a>, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lake-villa.org\/\">Lake Villa<\/a>, Ill. Melbourn was a passenger on the boat; it was alleged she contributed to Hatyina\u2019s consumption of alcohol and cocaine. Hatyina was impaired as he operated the boat at speeds in excess of 40 mph. Hatyina struck Antonio with the boat. Antonio suffered severe injuries that resulted in his death on July 28, 2012.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-reverses-lake-county-ill-court-dismissal-of-wrongful-death-boating-accident-on-the-in-concert-theory-of-liability-and-negligent-infliction-of-emotional-di\/#more-5125\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Appellate Court for the Second District has reversed a Lake County, Ill., dismissal of a personal-injury and wrongful-death claim against Rene Melbourn who was dismissed on motion under the Illinois Code of Civil Procedures, Section 2-615, for failure to state a cause of action. The plaintiffs appealed the dismissal with prejudice of their [&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":[162,22,56,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating-accident-cases","category-illinois-civil-procedure","category-personal-injury","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 Appellate Court Reverses Lake County, Ill., Court Dismissal of Wrongful Death Boating Accident on the \u201cIn-Concert\u201d Theory of Liability and Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress &#8212; 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