{"id":7739,"date":"2020-06-29T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?p=7739"},"modified":"2020-06-29T12:35:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T12:35:57","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-reverses-dismissal-of-injured-plaintiffs-case-who-sued-the-wrong-entity-allowing-piercing-of-corporate-veil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-reverses-dismissal-of-injured-plaintiffs-case-who-sued-the-wrong-entity-allowing-piercing-of-corporate-veil\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Reverses Dismissal of Injured Plaintiff\u2019s Case Who Sued the Wrong Entity, Allowing Piercing of Corporate Veil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Will County judge rejected Diana Angell\u2019s attempt to use veil-piercing to overcome a mistake made in suing the wrong defendant. Her attorney sued Santefort Family Holdings LLC when she should have targeted an affiliated company known as <a href=\"https:\/\/midwestrealestatellc.com\">Midwest Home Rentals LLC<\/a>. Having done so, the circuit court judge dismissed the case; however, the Illinois Appellate Court for the Third District reversed with a dissent.<\/p>\n<p>Angell was inspecting a mobile home that was for sale or lease at Tri-Star Estate when she walked into an unlit bathroom and stepped into a hole. She was seriously injured and sued Tri-Star\u2019s owner, Santefort Family Holdings. Even though Santefort Family Holdings owned the real estate, the mobile home was owned by Midwest Home Rentals LLC.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, Santefort Family 2012 Irrevocable Trust reportedly owned numerous affiliates, including Santefort Real Estate Group LLC (which owned the defendant, Santefort Family Holdings), Midwest Home Rentals LLC, Santefort Services LLC, Santefort Property Management Inc. (called SPMI) and an array of single purpose entities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-reverses-dismissal-of-injured-plaintiffs-case-who-sued-the-wrong-entity-allowing-piercing-of-corporate-veil\/#more-7739\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Will County judge rejected Diana Angell\u2019s attempt to use veil-piercing to overcome a mistake made in suing the wrong defendant. Her attorney sued Santefort Family Holdings LLC when she should have targeted an affiliated company known as Midwest Home Rentals LLC. Having done so, the circuit court judge dismissed the case; however, the Illinois [&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":[46,22,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-procedure","category-illinois-civil-procedure","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 Reverses Dismissal of Injured Plaintiff\u2019s Case Who Sued the Wrong Entity, Allowing Piercing of Corporate Veil &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Will County judge rejected Diana Angell\u2019s attempt to use veil-piercing to overcome a mistake made in suing the wrong defendant. 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