MARSTON v. WALGREEN CO.

No. 1-07-0209.

907 N.E.2d 851 (2009)

389 Ill. App.3d 337

Richard MARSTON, as Independent Administrator for the Estate of Leonard J. Kulisek, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WALGREEN COMPANY, an Illinois Corporation, Defendant-Appellant (Mia Crickman and Charles Kulisek, Intervening Plaintiffs-Appellees and Cross-Appellants; James Wilmes, Defendant; The Department of Human Services, Intervenor).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Second Division.

March 31, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, Chicago (Michele Odorizzi, of counsel) and Johnson & Bell, Ltd., Chicago (Thomas J. Andrews and Michael C. Holy, of counsel), for Appellant.

David A. Axelrod & Associates, P.C., Chicago (David A. Axelrod and Stacey L. Leinheiser, of counsel), for appellee Richard Marston.

S.C. Lucas Law Offices (Scott C. Lucas, of counsel) and R.D. Skelton, Ltd. (Richard D. Skelton, of counsel), and Law Offices of Lynn Dowd, Naperville (Lynn D. Dowd, of counsel), for appellees Mia Crickman and Charles Kulisek.

National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Inc., Alexandria, VA, (Don L. Bell, II, of counsel), amicus curiae.

Law Office of Lawrence R. Kream, LLC, Chicago (Lawrence R. Kream, of counsel), for amicus curiae.


Justice CUNNINGHAM delivered the opinion of the court:

In this personal injury, wrongful death, and survival action in October 2006, a jury found defendants Walgreen Company (Walgreen) and Walgreen's pharmacist, James Wilmes,1 to have been negligent in providing the wrong prescription drugs to Leonard Kulisek, then 77 years old. This event occurred on January 1, 2001, at a Walgreen's store in Schaumburg, Illinois. Kulisek suffered grave...

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