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SPYRKA v. COUNTY OF COOK

No. 1-05-1338.

851 N.E.2d 800 (2006)

Stanley SPYRKA, as Independent Administrator of the Estate of Dorota Spyrka, Deceased; and Stanley Spyrka, individually, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The COUNTY OF COOK and Dr. Chi Du, Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fourth Division.

June 8, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney of Cook County (Patrick T. Driscoll, Jr., Deputy State's Attorney, Chief, Civil Actions Bureau; Patrick M. Blanchard, Assistant State's Attorney) and Marcie Thorp, Special Assistant State's Attorney, O'Hagan, Smith Amundsen, L.L.C., of counsel, Chicago, for Appellant.

Ball & Jennings, Ltd., Chicago (James T. Ball, Theodore C. Jennings, Erin M. Kinahan, of counsel), for Appellee.

Justice CAMPBELL delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendants County of Cook and Dr. Chi Du appeal a judgment of the circuit court of Cook County finding them liable in a medical malpractice case brought by plaintiff Stanley Spyrka, individually and as independent administrator of the estate of Dorota Spyrka. The trial court entered the judgment on a jury verdict of $16,957,310. The trial court denied defendants' posttrial...

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