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METZ v. FAIRBURY HOSPITAL

No. 4-82-0797.

118 Ill. App.3d 1093 (1983)

455 N.E.2d 1096

RUEBEN METZ, Plaintiff, v. FAIRBURY HOSPITAL et al., Defendants — (Fairbury Hospital, Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Carle Clinic Associates, Inc., et al., Third-Party Defendants-Appellees).

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fourth District.

Opinion filed November 3, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Costigan & Wollrab, of Bloomington, for appellant.

Todd M. Tennant, of Dobbins, Fraker, Tennant, Joy & Perlstein, of Champaign, for appellees.

Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal involves the necessity and sufficiency of expert testimony on the breach of the applicable standard of care in a medical malpractice action. The trial court found that Fairbury Hospital, the third-party plaintiff, had failed to introduce the necessary evidence of a breach of the standard of care; therefore, the court directed verdicts in favor of the third-party defendants at...

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