{"id":6883,"date":"2018-10-03T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?p=6883"},"modified":"2018-10-01T20:18:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T20:18:08","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-reverses-concluding-that-trial-judge-misapplied-the-law-regarding-sole-proximate-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-reverses-concluding-that-trial-judge-misapplied-the-law-regarding-sole-proximate-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Reverses, Concluding That Trial Judge Misapplied the Law Regarding Sole Proximate Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a divided opinion by the Illinois Appellate Court, the majority viewed the case revolving \u201caround a single question: Is the sole proximate cause theory and jury instruction available in a negligence action if a defendant argues more than one nonparty actor was the sole proximate cause of plaintiff\u2019s injury?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decision of the appellate court reinstated a verdict against jockey Rene Douglas in a case in which the defendants, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arlingtonpark.com\">Arlington Park Racecourse<\/a> and its owner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchilldowns.com\">Churchill Downs<\/a>, blamed Douglas\u2019s fall from his mount, Born To Be. The incident took place during the 2009 Arlington Matron Handicap on two nonparties: Jockey Jaime Theriot and <a href=\"https:\/\/martincollinsusa.com\">Martin Collins LLC<\/a>, the manufacturer of the track\u2019s synthetic surface.<\/p>\n<p>Arlington Park\u2019s 2-empty chair theory was that (1) Theriot allegedly caused the accident when his horse\u2019s back legs reportedly \u201cclipped\u201d Born To Be\u2019s front legs and\/or (2) Douglas\u2019s injuries were catastrophic because Martin Collins failed to warn about the need for special maintenance to eliminate the \u201cunsafe dynamic shear angle\u201d that allegedly caused Douglas to \u201cpocket\u201d into the synthetic surface.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-reverses-concluding-that-trial-judge-misapplied-the-law-regarding-sole-proximate-cause\/#more-6883\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a divided opinion by the Illinois Appellate Court, the majority viewed the case revolving \u201caround a single question: Is the sole proximate cause theory and jury instruction available in a negligence action if a defendant argues more than one nonparty actor was the sole proximate cause of plaintiff\u2019s injury?\u201d The decision of the appellate [&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":[71,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jury-instructions","category-product-liability"],"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, Concluding That Trial Judge Misapplied the Law Regarding Sole Proximate Cause &#8212; 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