BART v. UNION OIL CO.

No. 3-91-0964.

603 N.E.2d 77 (1992)

236 Ill. App.3d 964

177 Ill.Dec. 296

Gertrude M. BART, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNION OIL COMPANY, et al., Defendants (Occidental Fire & Casualty Company of North Carolina, Intervenor-Appellee).

Appellate Court of Illinois, Third District.

Rehearing Denied December 3, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maureen A. Hill, argued, and Wendell W. Clancy, argued, Clancy & Krippner, St. Charles, for Gertrude M. Bart.

Thomas H. Fegan, Mindy Kallus, and Michael B. Gunzburg, argued, Johnson & Bell, Ltd., Chicago, for Occidental Fire & Cas. Co.

Robert E. Joyce, Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, Chicago, for Union Oil Co.


Justice STOUDER delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiff-appellant, Gertrude M. Bart, appeals from a judgment in favor of the intervenor-appellee, the Occidental Fire & Casualty Company of North Carolina. The trial court held that Occidental's workers' compensation lien attached to the entire amount of a settlement obtained by Gertrude.

In 1984, Gertrude's husband, Alex Bart, was killed in an explosion at a Lemont, Illinois, refinery operated...

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