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Illinois Venue Statute Not Triggered By Presence Of Employee's Home Office | Husch Blackwell LLP


In a fact-intensive decision issued on October 22, 2020, the Illinois Supreme Court determined in
. that the mere presence of an employee’s home office in Cook County was insufficient, by itself, to establish proper venue over his employer in the jurisdiction. Merely having an employee with a home office in the venue was insufficient under the circumstances to constitute “doing business” or maintaining an “other office” there to satisfy the requirements of Illinois’ venue statute.
The Case
Plaintiff’s underlying claims were unrelated to the employee’s home office in Cook County and instead arose out of a tractor trailer accident that occurred in Ohio between plaintiff and a truck driver employed by Gilster Mary Lee (GML). Despite the fact that the incident occurred in Ohio, the plaintiff filed a negligence action against both the driver and GML in Cook County, Ill. The driver and GML both filed motions to transfer venue pursuant to the Illinois venue s ....

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