ALBERTO-CULVER CO. v. AON CORP.

No. 1-02-3815.

812 N.E.2d 369 (2004)

351 Ill.App.3d 123

285 Ill.Dec. 549

ALBERTO-CULVER COMPANY, Associated Aviation Underwriters, Inc., The American Insurance Company, Centennial Casualty Company, Federal Insurance Company, Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, Greenwich Insurance Company, Lumberman's Mutual Casualty Company and Sun Insurance Office of America, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. AON CORPORATION and Aon Aviation, Inc., Defendants-Appellees (Kalyn Alwin and Devin Koppie, Co-Administrators of the Estate of Martin Larry Koppie, Deceased, and Jacqueline Quern, Independent Executor of the Estate of Arthur F. Quern, Deceased, Interveners; United States Aviation Underwriters, Inc., Intervener-Appellee).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fourth Division.

Rehearing Denied July 22, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alder, Murphy & McQuillen, Chicago (Michael G. McQuillen, James F. Murphy, Mark S. Susina and Austin W. Bartlett, of counsel), for Appellants.

Richard J. Prendergast, Cozen O'Connor, Chicago (Matthew T. Walsh, of counsel), for Intervener-Appellee (USAU).

Merlo, Kanofsky & Brinkmeier, Ltd., Chicago (Alan J. Brinkmeier, of counsel), for Appellee.


Justice HARTMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal arises from an aircraft accident involving a Gulfstream G-IV aircraft (G-IV) privately owned by Alberto-Culver Company (Alberto), and being utilized by Aon Corporation and Aon Aviation, Inc., (sometimes collectively Aon). The plane crashed upon takeoff at Palwaukee Municipal Airport (Palwaukee) on October 30, 1996, and was consumed by fire. All four persons aboard perished, including Martin Larry Koppie...

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