{"id":1124,"date":"2020-04-08T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2020-04-06T06:16:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T11:16:41","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-rules-that-the-wrongful-death-act-did-not-bar-cause-of-action-or-recovery-against-physician-and-medical-institution-in-fetal-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-rules-that-the-wrongful-death-act-did-not-bar-cause-of-action-or-recovery-against-physician-and-medical-institution-in-fetal-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Rules that the Wrongful Death Act Did Not Bar Cause of Action or Recovery Against Physician and Medical Institution in Fetal Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monique Thomas and Christopher Mitchell sought damages in a lawsuit alleging that Dr. Edgard Khoury and Dr. Robert Kagan caused the wrongful death of their fetus from injuries suffered during an elective surgery performed on Thomas. A pregnancy test before the surgery alerted the doctors that Thomas was \u201cpotentially pregnant.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>After an inconclusive ultrasound, defendant physicians proceeded with the surgery. A short time later, the pregnancy was confirmed. As a result of the drugs that were used and the procedures in this surgery, they asserted the fetus was exposed to health risks that resulted in a nonviable fetus. Mitchell and Thomas then had to decide whether to terminate the pregnancy. They decided on ending the pregnancy by an abortion following which Thomas and Mitchell sought damages in this lawsuit alleging the surgery injured the fetus, leading to the wrongful death.  <\/p>\n<p>In denying defendants\u2019 motion to dismiss pursuant to Section 2-619(a)(9) of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure, the trial court found a substantial ground for difference of opinion after the scope and application of the second and third paragraphs of Section 2.2 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilga.gov\/legislation\/ilcs\/ilcs3.asp?ActID=2059&#038;ChapterID=57\">Wrongful Death Act (740 ILCS 180\/2.2)<\/a>, and certified this question:<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-rules-that-the-wrongful-death-act-did-not-bar-cause-of-action-or-recovery-against-physician-and-medical-institution-in-fetal-death\/#more-1124\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monique Thomas and Christopher Mitchell sought damages in a lawsuit alleging that Dr. Edgard Khoury and Dr. Robert Kagan caused the wrongful death of their fetus from injuries suffered during an elective surgery performed on Thomas. A pregnancy test before the surgery alerted the doctors that Thomas was \u201cpotentially pregnant.\u201d After an inconclusive ultrasound, defendant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,35,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anesthesiology-errors","category-surgery-negligence","category-wrongful-death"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Appellate Court Rules that the Wrongful Death Act Did Not Bar Cause of Action or Recovery Against Physician and Medical Institution in Fetal Death &#8212; 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