JOHNSON v. BELLEVILLE RADIOLOGISTS, LTD.

No. 5-90-0313.

581 N.E.2d 750 (1991)

221 Ill. App.3d 100

163 Ill.Dec. 596

Carleen JOHNSON and Mark Johnson, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. BELLEVILLE RADIOLOGISTS, LTD., and Stephen E. Lehnert, M.D., Defendants-Appellants (St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Fred J. Mueller, M.D., Ltd., and Dr. Stephen V. Mueller, Defendants).

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

October 23, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sandberg, Phoenix & von Gontard, P.C., Peter von Gontard, Jan E. Dodd, St. Louis, Mo., for Belleville Radiologists, Ltd. and Stephen E. Lehnert, M.D.

The Hullverson Law Firm, Philip C. Denton, St. Louis, Mo., for plaintiffs-appellees.


Justice CHAPMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs brought this action for medical malpractice and claimed Carleen was rendered infertile because two surgical sponges were left in her abdomen following a caesarean delivery. Her husband, Mark Johnson, brought a claim for loss of consortium. Plaintiffs' claim against Dr. Fred Mueller was dismissed before trial, and his role in this cause is not involved in this appeal.

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