{"id":7721,"date":"2020-04-27T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?p=7721"},"modified":"2020-04-24T10:54:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T10:54:41","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-affirms-that-open-and-obvious-doctrine-unavailable-in-elevator-door-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-that-open-and-obvious-doctrine-unavailable-in-elevator-door-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Open-and-Obvious Doctrine Unavailable in Elevator Door Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Greenhill, the plaintiff, was a sprinkler fitter for a construction project when he was injured at work by a freight elevator.<\/p>\n<p>While he was entering the elevator, another passenger pressed the \u201cdoor close\u201d button and the elevator gate descended, striking Greenhill.<\/p>\n<p>The Illinois First District Appellate Court held that the open-and-obvious doctrine was not available to the defendants, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmrgroup.com\/Home\/\">REIT Management &amp; Research LLC,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thyssenkruppelevator.com\/\">Thyssenkrupp Elevator Corp.<\/a>, and the building manager, CW 600 W. Chicago LLC, because the risk of entering the elevator would not have been apparent to a reasonable person in the view of Greenhill.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-that-open-and-obvious-doctrine-unavailable-in-elevator-door-case\/#more-7721\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Greenhill, the plaintiff, was a sprinkler fitter for a construction project when he was injured at work by a freight elevator. While he was entering the elevator, another passenger pressed the \u201cdoor close\u201d button and the elevator gate descended, striking Greenhill. The Illinois First District Appellate Court held that the open-and-obvious doctrine was not [&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":[91,159,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appellate-procedure","category-elevator-accidents","category-evidence"],"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 Open-and-Obvious Doctrine Unavailable in Elevator Door Case &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Robert Greenhill, the plaintiff, was a sprinkler fitter for a construction project when he was injured at work by a freight elevator. While he was\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-that-open-and-obvious-doctrine-unavailable-in-elevator-door-case\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Open-and-Obvious Doctrine Unavailable in Elevator Door Case &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Robert Greenhill, the plaintiff, was a sprinkler fitter for a construction project when he was injured at work by a freight elevator. While he was\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Robert Kreisman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Open-and-Obvious Doctrine Unavailable in Elevator Door Case &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","description":"Robert Greenhill, the plaintiff, was a sprinkler fitter for a construction project when he was injured at work by a freight elevator. While he was","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-that-open-and-obvious-doctrine-unavailable-in-elevator-door-case\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Open-and-Obvious Doctrine Unavailable in Elevator Door Case &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","twitter_description":"Robert Greenhill, the plaintiff, was a sprinkler fitter for a construction project when he was injured at work by a freight elevator. While he was","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Robert Kreisman","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-that-open-and-obvious-doctrine-unavailable-in-elevator-door-case\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-that-open-and-obvious-doctrine-unavailable-in-elevator-door-case\/"},"author":{"name":"Robert Kreisman","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/5e5596abf7be77fdabc788f0a78f042b"},"headline":"Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Open-and-Obvious Doctrine Unavailable in Elevator Door Case","datePublished":"2020-04-27T10:00:02+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-that-open-and-obvious-doctrine-unavailable-in-elevator-door-case\/"},"wordCount":506,"articleSection":["Appellate Procedure","Elevator Accidents","Evidence"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-that-open-and-obvious-doctrine-unavailable-in-elevator-door-case\/","url":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-that-open-and-obvious-doctrine-unavailable-in-elevator-door-case\/","name":"Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Open-and-Obvious Doctrine Unavailable in Elevator Door Case &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-04-27T10:00:02+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/5e5596abf7be77fdabc788f0a78f042b"},"description":"Robert Greenhill, the plaintiff, was a sprinkler fitter for a construction project when he was injured at work by a freight elevator. While he was","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-that-open-and-obvious-doctrine-unavailable-in-elevator-door-case\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-that-open-and-obvious-doctrine-unavailable-in-elevator-door-case\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-that-open-and-obvious-doctrine-unavailable-in-elevator-door-case\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Open-and-Obvious Doctrine Unavailable in Elevator Door Case"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/","name":"Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","description":"Published by Chicago Illinois Accident Attorney \u2014 Robert Kreisman","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/5e5596abf7be77fdabc788f0a78f042b","name":"Robert Kreisman","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Robert Kreisman"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com"]}]}},"yoast":{"focuskw":"","title":"","metadesc":"","linkdex":"","metakeywords":"","meta-robots-noindex":"","meta-robots-nofollow":"","meta-robots-adv":"","canonical":"","redirect":"","opengraph-title":"","opengraph-description":"","opengraph-image":"","twitter-title":"","twitter-description":"","twitter-image":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7H0vI-20x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7721"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7728,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721\/revisions\/7728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}