{"id":3976,"date":"2018-05-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/?p=3976"},"modified":"2018-04-30T07:31:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T12:31:00","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-reduces-jury-verdict-from-22-1-million-to-7-1-million-after-plaintiff-died-the-night-before-jurys-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-reduces-jury-verdict-from-22-1-million-to-7-1-million-after-plaintiff-died-the-night-before-jurys-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Reduces Jury Verdict from $22.1 Million to $7.1 Million After Plaintiff Dies the Night Before Jury\u2019s Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A medical malpractice lawsuit arising from the death of Jeannette Turner first resulted in a jury verdict of $22.1 million in this medical malpractice, wrongful death lawsuit. Sadly, Turner died the night before the jury\u2019s verdict. According to the report of this Illinois Appellate Court case, her death transformed her medical-malpractice lawsuit into a survival claim for Joi Jefferson, Turner\u2019s daughter and the special representative of her estate. As a result, Jefferson was unable to recover compensation that was awarded for any injuries Turner would have suffered in the future. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompensatory tort damages are intended to compensate plaintiffs, not to punish defendants,\u201d Justice Mary Anne Mason wrote in the 23-page opinion. \u201cWe would run afoul of this principle if we allowed Jeannette\u2019s estate to collect an award for future injuries Jeannette will no longer suffer. For this reason, we limit plaintiff\u2019s recovery to compensation for injuries Jeannette suffered prior to her death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turner had sued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercy-chicago.org\">Mercy Hospital &#038; Medical Center<\/a> in 2006 claiming that the hospital\u2019s doctors chose not to care for her after installing a tracheostomy tube in her windpipe. A blood clot developed, causing her to go into respiratory arrest. She suffered serious brain damage after she was without oxygen for 20-25 minutes.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-reduces-jury-verdict-from-22-1-million-to-7-1-million-after-plaintiff-died-the-night-before-jurys-verdict\/#more-3976\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A medical malpractice lawsuit arising from the death of Jeannette Turner first resulted in a jury verdict of $22.1 million in this medical malpractice, wrongful death lawsuit. Sadly, Turner died the night before the jury\u2019s verdict. According to the report of this Illinois Appellate Court case, her death transformed her medical-malpractice lawsuit into a survival [&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":[68,25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-damages","category-hospital-errors","category-illinois-civil-procedure"],"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 Reduces Jury Verdict from $22.1 Million to $7.1 Million After Plaintiff Dies the Night Before Jury\u2019s Verdict &#8212; 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