BENDER v. EIRING

No. 1-06-2339.

882 N.E.2d 1252 (2008)

Michael Ian BENDER, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Lawana D. Barton, a/k/a Tawana Barton, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Denise EIRING, Glenkirk, Leonard Young, Sheridan Medical Center, Ltd., Livia E. Hantos, Yvonne Jurcik, M.D., S.C., Drs. Jurcik and Hantos, S.C., Ramon M. Villanueva, Northwest Community Hospital, Medical Emergency Services Associates (MESA,) Inc., EM Care Services of Illinois, Inc., Sachidananda Shastri, Andrew Pundy, Allen Kuo, Lutheran General Hospital, Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation, Walgreen Company, and Walgreen Properties, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fourth Division.

February 7, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter D. Kasdin, Ltd., Chicago (Peter D. Kasdin, David W. Hepplewhite, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Smith Amundsen, LLC, Chicago (Michael Resis, Rita L. Gitchell, of counsel), for Defendant-Appellant.


Justice SHEILA M. O'BRIEN delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff, the special administrator of the estate of Lawana D. Barton, a/k/a Tawana Barton (decedent), brought a negligence action against the defendants on behalf of certain of the decedent's next of kin for wrongful death, survival, and loss of society. The circuit court entered summary judgment in favor of the defendants on the decedent's parents' claims for loss of society, based on the court's conclusion...

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