MATARESE v. BUKA

No. 1-06-2276.

897 N.E.2d 893 (2008)

Gloria MATARESE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Jonathan BUKA, Defendant-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fifth Division.

October 31, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin J. Golden and Robert J. Napleton, Motherway & Napleton, LLP, Chicago, IL, and Lynn Dowd and Robert G. Black, Law Offices of Lynn D. Dowd, Naperville, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

William F. Cunningham and Robert L. Larsen, Cunningham, Meyer & Vedrine, P.C., Wheaton, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.


Justice FROSSARD delivered the opinion of the court:

After a jury trial, defendant Jonathan Buka, M.D., an ophthalmologist, was found not liable in plaintiff Gloria Matarese's medical malpractice claim. On appeal, plaintiff contends: (1) she is entitled to a new trial based on an erroneous jury instruction concerning professional negligence; and (2) the trial court erred in prohibiting her testimony about events after a certain visit to defendant. For the reasons...

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