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Article: No duty to warn, Illinois high court holds: the court reaffirms the rule that Party A has no duty to warn Party B about a threat posed by Party C unless there's a special relationship between A and B.(Iseberg v. Gross)
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- Illinois Bar Journal
- Article date:
- November 1, 2007
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Someone with whom you used to do business has made threats against another of your former business associates, blaming that individual for ruining his life. Have you any duty to warn the latter person?
In a unanimous opinion (in which one justice took no part), the Illinois Supreme Court said no. The case is Iseberg v Gross, 2007 WL 2729325 (Ill Sup Ct).
The facts and lower-court holding
Mitchell Iseberg, Sheldon Gross, Henry Frank, and Edward Slavin were involved in a business development venture in Lake County. The venture didn't work out as they'd hoped, and, in early 1999, Slavin ended up losing all of his savings that he'd invested in the ...