General Contractor for Municipal Construction Project Owed no Duty of Care to City Employee

The Appellate Court of Illinois ruled that the general contractor on a municipal construction project was entitled to summary judgment dismissing it from a negligence suit filed by a city employee who was injured at the job site. Case: O'Gorman v. F.H. Paschen, No. 1-13-3472, 03/20/2015, published. Facts: The City of Chicago hired F.H. Paschen to serve as the general contractor for the renovation of the city's former police department headquarters. Paschen hired Old Veteran Construction as a masonry subcontractor, to extend the building's elevator shaft. City employees cut a ho...