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IDC Membership Monday Kevin Young is a member of IDC’s Construction Law Committee. He is an associate attorney at the Chicago office of Cassiday Schade, where his practice focuses on civil defense with an emphasis in construction cases. #MemberMonday #ConstructionLaw https://lnkd.in/gU2yUXk6

While the Illinois Tollway hasn’t released the predicted numbers for Thanksgiving 2024, it expected 8.7 million travelers in 2022, and 8.8 million travelers in 2023, to drive the Tollway system throughout Thanksgiving and the holiday weekend. Do you think that the 2024 numbers will exceed the 2022 and 2023 predictions? #IDCFunFactFriday #Construction #IDCLaw

Please join us in welcoming Rachael Palmer, an Associate Attorney at Kamykowski & Taylor, P.C., to IDC! Rachael focuses her practice on defending clients in the areas of personal injury, lost chance of survival, and wrongful death suits, with an emphasis on medical malpractice matters. https://lnkd.in/g_vBSaQB #IDC #IDCNewMember

As mentioned in Tuesday’s post, Neisendorf v. Abbey Paving & Sealcoating, Co., Inc., 2024 IL App (2d) 230209, contained a recent ruling affirming the trial’s court’s finding that the contract language at issue was insufficient to impose the requisite contractual control to establish a duty of care on that general contractor under Section 414 of the Restatement. In affirming the trial court’s decision, the appellate court relied on the 2003 case of Shaughnessy v. Skender Const. Co., 342 Ill. App. 3d 730 (1st Dist. 2003), noting that the trial court affirmed summary judgment for the general contractor in Shaughnessy where the general contract’s language “establish[ed] only that [the general contractor] and [the subcontractor] reserved a general right to stop, start and inspect the progress of the work.” Id. at ? 80. In what ways has the Shaughnessy matter impacted your practice directly? #throwbackThursday #construction.

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In follow to Tuesday’s post, how will the recent ruling in Neisendorf v. Abbey Paving & Sealcoating, Co., Inc., 2024 IL App (2d) 230209, impact your clients and overall practice, why? #WhyWednesday #IDC #Construction

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In the matter of Neisendorf v. Abbey Paving & Sealcoating, Co., Inc., 2024 IL App (2d) 230209 the Illinois’ Second District Appellate Court reinforced the fact that contract language granting a general contractor the general right to stop work—particularly where it does not give the general contractor control over the operative details of the subcontractor’s work—is insufficient to impose the requisite contractual control to establish a duty of care on that general contractor under Section 414 of the Restatement. As you work through issues of liability, keep a close eye on the specific contract language at issue as it may be insufficient to establish liability under Section 414 of the Restatement. #IDClaw #construction #IDCtiptuesday