McDONNELL v. McPARTLIN

No. 1-97-1822.

708 N.E.2d 412 (1999)

303 Ill. App.3d 391

236 Ill.Dec. 826

Moira McDONNELL, Executrix of the Estate of John G. McDonnell, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Richard F. McPARTLIN, III, M.D., Richard F. McPartlin, III, Ltd., Thomas Mullin, Jr., M.D., and DuPage Emergency Physicians, Ltd., Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fourth Division.

February 25, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Corboy & Demetrio, P.C., Chicago, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

William F. Cunningham, Maura W. Moore, Cunningham, Meyer & Vedrine, Wheaton, for Defendants-Appellees Richard F. McPartlin, III, M.D., and Richard F. McPartlin, III, Ltd.

Hinshaw & Culbertson, Chicago (E. Michael Kelly, Stephen R. Swofford, and Christine L. Olson, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees Thomas Mullin, Jr., M.D., and DuPage Emergency Physicians, Ltd.


Justice WOLFSON delivered the opinion of the court:

In this professional medical negligence trial two doctors were accused of failing to timely diagnose and treat John McDonnell's hip infection, proximately causing his eventual death. While the defendants denied they were negligent and denied anything they did was a proximate cause of the injury, they also contended, among other things, a non-party doctor's conduct was the sole proximate cause of the injury.

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