{"id":7504,"date":"2019-10-31T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?p=7504"},"modified":"2019-10-30T10:44:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T10:44:44","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-affirms-grant-of-summary-judgment-in-premises-liability-case-brought-against-a-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-grant-of-summary-judgment-in-premises-liability-case-brought-against-a-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Grant of Summary Judgment in Premises Liability Case Brought Against a Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Third District Appellate Court, in its written order issued on Oct. 16, 2019, affirmed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tazewell.com\">Tazewell County<\/a> judge\u2019s decision to grant summary judgment in favor of Pottsie\u2019s Place. The appeals court ruled that the plaintiff, Jeffrey Smith, did not present any evidence showing the bar had a duty to take additional steps to prevent customers from being injured by a heater.<\/p>\n<p>The premises liability case was brought against the bar, Pottsie\u2019s, alleging that the bar chose not to take action to protect its patrons from potential injury when its employees placed a written warning above an outdoor heater.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRequiring Pottsie\u2019s to take further steps in addition to the clear and prominent warning it provided would essentially render Pottsie\u2019s an insurer of its invitees\u2019 safety, which would be unduly burdensome and contrary to the law,\u201d according to the opinion written by Justice William E. Holdridge.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-grant-of-summary-judgment-in-premises-liability-case-brought-against-a-bar\/#more-7504\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Third District Appellate Court, in its written order issued on Oct. 16, 2019, affirmed a Tazewell County judge\u2019s decision to grant summary judgment in favor of Pottsie\u2019s Place. The appeals court ruled that the plaintiff, Jeffrey Smith, did not present any evidence showing the bar had a duty to take additional steps to prevent [&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":[140,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burn-injuries","category-premises-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 Affirms Grant of Summary Judgment in Premises Liability Case Brought Against a Bar &#8212; 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