{"id":6922,"date":"2018-10-26T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?p=6922"},"modified":"2018-10-25T10:23:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T10:23:02","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-affirms-trial-courts-denial-of-motion-for-new-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-trial-courts-denial-of-motion-for-new-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Trial Court\u2019s Denial of Motion for New Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Neuhengen was injured in a forklift accident allegedly caused by Frederick Neirinckx, a Global Experience Specialists employee. The judgment was entered in the amount of $12,228,068 in compensatory damages and $3 million in punitive damages for Neuhengen. Global Experience appealed from that judgment.<\/p>\n<p>Global Experience argued that the trial judge erred in refusing to dismiss Count III of the plaintiff\u2019s complaint, which provided the predicate for the exemplary award for alleging willful and wanton conduct in hiring and training Neirinckx because Global Experience stipulated, before trial, that it would be vicariously liable for any negligent or careless conduct by Neirinckx.<\/p>\n<p>In the appeal, Global Experience relied on the case of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/opinion\/2120595\/neff-v-davenport-packing-co\/\"><em>Neff v. Davenport Packing<\/em> <em>Co.<\/em><\/a>, 131 Ill.App.2d 791 (1971). In cases in which a complaint alleges negligence by an employee along with vicarious liability for that negligence against the employer, <em>Neff<\/em> calls for dismissing the negligence claims against the corporation if it admits liability for the employee\u2019s conduct.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-trial-courts-denial-of-motion-for-new-trial\/#more-6922\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Neuhengen was injured in a forklift accident allegedly caused by Frederick Neirinckx, a Global Experience Specialists employee. The judgment was entered in the amount of $12,228,068 in compensatory damages and $3 million in punitive damages for Neuhengen. Global Experience appealed from that judgment. Global Experience argued that the trial judge erred in refusing to [&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":[9,8,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forklift-injuries","category-forklift-truck-injuries","category-illinois-supreme-court"],"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 Trial Court\u2019s Denial of Motion for New Trial &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Thomas Neuhengen was injured in a forklift accident allegedly caused by Frederick Neirinckx, a Global Experience Specialists employee. 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