CAMPBELL v. ACME INSULATIONS, INC.

No. 1-17-3051.

105 N.E.3d 984 (2018)

2018 IL App (1st) 173051

Arlin CAMPBELL, Deceased, By and Through His Special Administrator, Anissa Campbell Ivey, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ACME INSULATIONS, INC.; Action Insulating Services, Inc.; Ajax Electric Company; Ajax Magnethermic Corporation; Allegheny International, Inc., f/k/a Allegheny Steel Company; Allegheny Steel Company; Allied Insulation Supply Co., Inc.; Alloyed Insulation Company, Inc.; Arvinmeritor, Inc.; Arctic Insulation, Inc.; A.W. Chesterton Company; Brand Insulations, Inc.; Borg-Warner Corporation, by its successor-in-interest BorgWarner Morse Tec, Inc.; Carboline Company; Cardinal Industrial Insulation Co., Inc.; Carlisle Insulation, Inc.; Caterpillar, Inc.; CBS Corporation, f/k/a Viacom, Inc., merger to CBS Corporation, f/k/a Westinghouse Electric Corp.; Certain-Teed Corporation; Colfax Corporation, a Virginia Corporation, a/k/a Warner Electric, a/k/a Boston Gear, a/k/a Delroyd Worm Gear Formsprag Clutch, a/k/a Stieber Clutch, a/k/a Ameridrives Couplings, a/k/a Wichita Clutch, a/k/a Nuttall Gear, a/k/a Industrial Clutch, a/k/a Marland Clutch; Continental Teves, Inc.; Crown, Cork and Seal Company, Inc.; CSR, Ltd, a/k/a Consolidated Sugar and Refining; The Dow Chemical Company; Ferro Corporation; Ferro Industries; Foseco, Inc.; General Electric Company; General Gasket Corporation; Georgia-Pacific, LLC; Grinnell, LLC; Hennessy Industries, Inc.; Honeywell International, Inc.; Iowa Illinois Taylor Insulation Contracting, Inc.; John Crane, Inc.; The J.R. Clarkson Company, successor to the Kunkle Valve Company, and successor to J.E. Lonergan Company; L & S Insulation Co., Inc.; Latrobe Specialty Steel Company; Lear-Siegler Diversified Holdings Corp.; Lennox Industries, Inc., f/k/a Lennox Furnace Company; Luse-Stevenson Co.; M & O Insulation Company; Maremont Corporation; Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; Midland Engineering Company, Inc.; Mine Safety Appliances Company; Morton International, Inc., as successor-in-interest to Morton Thiokol, Inc., as successor-in-interest to Thiokol Corporation; National Service Industries, Inc. (Delaware), f/k/a North Brothers, National Service Industries, f/k/a North Brothers; Nelson Insulation Company; On Marine Services Company, a Delaware Corporation, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Oglebay Norton Company, an Ohio Corporation; Owens-Illinois, Inc.; Paul J. Krez Company; Sprinkmann Sons Corporation; Pnuemo Abex Corporation; Republic Steel; Riley Power, Inc., f/k/a Riley Stoker Corporation, and Taylor Insulation Company; Teledyne Mid-American Corporation, a/k/a Teledyne-Vasco, f/k/a Vasco Steel; Triangle Enterprises, Inc., a/k/a Triangle Insulation Company; Union Carbide Corporation; Union Electric Steel Corporation; Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, Inc., f/k/a Cytemp Steel; Washington Steel Corporation; Wilkin Insulation Co.; WTI Rust Holdings, Inc.; and Young Insulation Group of St. Louis, Inc., Defendants, (General Electric Company, Defendant-Appellant).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Sixth Division.

Opinion filed: May 18, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy E. Kapshandy , John A. Heller , and Peter N. Salib , of Sidley Austin LLP, of Chicago, for appellant.

Laci M. Whitley and Tyler B. Wilke , of Flint Law Firm, LLC, of Edwardsville, for appellee.


OPINION

¶ 1 The defendant, General Electric (GE), appeals from an order of the circuit court of Cook County denying its motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction over it in an action brought by the plaintiff, Arlin Campbell, for injuries allegedly...

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