COUNTRY MUT. INS. CO. v. OLSAK

Nos. 1-20-0695, 1-20-0731 (cons.).

216 N.E.3d 291 (2022)

2022 IL App (1st) 200695

COUNTRY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff and Counterdefendant-Appellee and Cross-Appellant, v. Thomas OLSAK; Joseph Pecoraro; Fremd School Hockey Club; and James W. Balkonis, Frank Biskner, William D. Degironemo, James Lapetina, Kenneth J. Nordgren, Edward J. Pudlo, and Matthew M. Sprenzel, as Members of the Board of Governors of the Fremd High School Hockey Club, Defendants (Thomas Olsak, Individually, and as the Assignor of His Claims, Demands and Causes of Action to Joseph Pecoraro, and Joseph Pecoraro, as the Assignee under a Certain Settlement Agreement Dated June 26, 2006, Defendants and Counterplaintiffs-Appellants and Cross-Appellees).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

Filed June 27, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman J. Lerum and Catherine E. Lerum , of Norman J. Lerum, P.C., of Chicago, and James Messineo , of James Messineo & Associates, of Inverness, for appellants Thomas Olsak and Joseph Pecoraro.

Keith G. Carlson , Jeffery A. Bier , and David M. Jenkins , of Carlson Bier Associates, LLC, of Chicago, for appellee Country Mutual Insurance Company.


OPINION

¶ 1 In 1998, Thomas Olsak struck Joseph Pecoraro in the head, causing him to suffer a severe head injury. Pecoraro filed suit naming, inter alia, Olsak and Ed Pudlo, Olsak's stepfather, as defendants. At the time of the incident, Pudlo had two insurance...

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