{"id":7641,"date":"2020-03-12T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?p=7641"},"modified":"2020-03-10T13:00:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T13:00:07","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-finds-no-duty-owed-to-third-party-when-waitress-at-restaurant-is-injured-by-industrial-sized-roll-of-toilet-paper-that-struck-her-on-head-in-public-restroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-finds-no-duty-owed-to-third-party-when-waitress-at-restaurant-is-injured-by-industrial-sized-roll-of-toilet-paper-that-struck-her-on-head-in-public-restroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Finds No Duty Owed to Third-Party When Waitress at Restaurant is Injured by Industrial Sized Roll of Toilet Paper That Struck Her on Head in Public Restroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a jury trial over a 3-day period in 2018, the jury returned the verdict in favor of the plaintiff, a restaurant waitress, Raona Pearson. The damages for her injuries were awarded against the defendant, <a href=\"https:\/\/pilotflyingj.com\">Pilot Travel Centers LLC.<\/a> Pilot filed a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV), which was denied by the trial court as were both parties\u2019 motions for directed verdict at the close of all evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Pilot appealed the verdict and the court\u2019s denial of motions for directed verdict.<\/p>\n<p>From the evening of April 7, 2016, Pearson was working as a waitress at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dennys.com\/\">Denny\u2019s<\/a> restaurant located inside of a truck stop in East St. Louis, Ill. The truck stop was owned by the defendant, Pilot. Both customers and employees of Denny\u2019s had available to them public restrooms located within Pilot\u2019s truck stop. Denny\u2019s did not have public restrooms of its own.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-finds-no-duty-owed-to-third-party-when-waitress-at-restaurant-is-injured-by-industrial-sized-roll-of-toilet-paper-that-struck-her-on-head-in-public-restroom\/#more-7641\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a jury trial over a 3-day period in 2018, the jury returned the verdict in favor of the plaintiff, a restaurant waitress, Raona Pearson. The damages for her injuries were awarded against the defendant, Pilot Travel Centers LLC. Pilot filed a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV), which was denied by the trial [&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":[85,11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-injuries","category-premises-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 Finds No Duty Owed to Third-Party When Waitress at Restaurant is Injured by Industrial Sized Roll of Toilet Paper That Struck Her on Head in Public Restroom &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a jury trial over a 3-day period in 2018, the jury returned the verdict in favor of the plaintiff, a restaurant waitress, Raona Pearson. 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