CLARENDON NAT. INS. CO. v. MEDINA

No. 10-1943.

645 F.3d 928 (2011)

CLARENDON NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Maria MEDINA, Guillermo Medina, Town Trucking Company, Jerry Schulman, Co-Administrator of the Estate of Michael Walter Schulman, Deceased, and Mary Falat-Schulman, Co-Administrator of the Estate of Michael Walter Schulman, Deceased, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 13, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ira S. Lipsius (argued) and Laurence J. Rabinovich , Attorneys, Schindel, Farman, Lipsius, Gardner & Rabinovich, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

William L. Barr, Jr. (argued), Attorney, Law Offices of William L. Barr, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before ROVNER, WOOD, and TINDER, Circuit Judges.


TINDER, Circuit Judge.

The trailer of Guillermo Medina's semitruck jackknifed across the center line of a slippery road while he was making a delivery of shingles for Town Trucking Company, a federally licensed motor carrier. The wayward trailer struck a pickup truck and killed its driver, Michael Walter Schulman. Schulman's parents, as administrators of his estate, brought a wrongful death and survival action in Illinois state court against Town; Guillermo; and Guillermo...

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