{"id":3828,"date":"2014-06-19T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=3828"},"modified":"2014-06-17T06:44:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T11:44:43","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-reverses-jury-verdict-based-collateral-source-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-reverses-jury-verdict-based-collateral-source-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Reverses Jury Verdict Based on the Collateral Source Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ruling by a Cook County trial judge mistakenly applying the collateral source rule against a jury verdict has been reversed. Hector Romero was alleged to have caused an automobile accident with the plaintiff, Sylvia Segovia. In that lawsuit, it was claimed that Segovia was injured while a passenger in her husband\u2019s car caused by the negligence of the defendant Romero. Segovia\u2019s husband, Rodolfo, was insured by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statefarm.com\/insurance\/auto?cmpid=searchbrand\">State Farm<\/a>, which paid for his vehicle repairs and reimbursed Sylvia $5,000 in medical bills under the \u201cmedpay\u201d provision of the State Farm Insurance policy.<\/p>\n<p>The medpay included $3,711 for treatment at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocatehealth.com\/luth\/\">Advocate Lutheran General Hospital<\/a> in Park Ridge, Ill.\u00a0 State Farm filed a subrogation lawsuit against Romero seeking $10,766 for the medical care for Sylvia. Romero\u2019s insurance carrier, <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.heartlandamerica.com\/hlacustomer\/welcome?SC=WIK20001\">American Heartland Insurance Co.,<\/a> settled with State Farm for a total of $5,383.<\/p>\n<p>Later, when Sylvia brought a lawsuit against Romero, she listed her damages as including $4,560 as a hospital bill from Lutheran General Hospital. The jury returned a verdict in her favor for $5,395, which was the medical expenses, but offered nothing for her loss of normal life or her pain and suffering.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-reverses-jury-verdict-based-collateral-source-rule\/#more-3828\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ruling by a Cook County trial judge mistakenly applying the collateral source rule against a jury verdict has been reversed. Hector Romero was alleged to have caused an automobile accident with the plaintiff, Sylvia Segovia. In that lawsuit, it was claimed that Segovia was injured while a passenger in her husband\u2019s car caused by [&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":[91,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appellate-procedure","category-car-accidents","category-insurance-claims"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Appellate Court Reverses Jury Verdict Based on the Collateral Source Rule  &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The ruling by a Cook County trial judge mistakenly applying the collateral source rule against a jury verdict has been reversed. 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