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HUELSMANN v. BERKOWITZ

No. 5-88-0768.

568 N.E.2d 1373 (1991)

210 Ill.App.3d 806

154 Ill.Dec. 924

Florence T. HUELSMANN and David R. Huelsmann, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Wallace P. BERKOWITZ, M.D., an individual, and Wallace P. Berkowitz, M.D., Ltd., Defendants-Appellants (St. Elizabeth Hospital, Defendant).

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

March 13, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hinshaw, Culbertson, Moelmann, Hoban & Fuller (D. Kendall Griffith, Robert W. Schmieder, Bruce L. Carmen, of counsel), Chicago, for defendants-appellants.

Burroughs, Simpson, Hepler, Broom & MacDonald, Edwardsville (Theodore J. MacDonald, Jr. and J. Todd Hayes, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Justice HOWERTON delivered the opinion of the court:

We affirm the judgment entered on the verdict of a St. Clair County jury that found defendant liable for medical malpractice, awarding plaintiff $79,975.80 in actual damages, but we reverse the judgment for $15,000 in punitive damages.

We hold that the circuit court properly imposed as a sanction for violating Supreme Court Rule 220 (134 Ill.2d R. 220) an order...

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