{"id":4956,"date":"2019-11-04T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/?p=4956"},"modified":"2019-11-04T05:40:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T11:40:27","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-affirms-defendant-physicians-motion-for-directed-verdict-in-medical-malpractice-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-defendant-physicians-motion-for-directed-verdict-in-medical-malpractice-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Defendant-Physician\u2019s Motion for Directed Verdict in Medical Malpractice Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Appellate Court rejected a claim by the plaintiff, Ludgardo R. Castillo, that expert testimony was required only to establish the applicable standard of care. Also, the trial court did not err in indicating to Castillo that she would have to pay money to the defendant to reimburse defense counsel for expenses incurred in attending a California evidence deposition of plaintiff\u2019s expert taken days before the scheduled trial. If plaintiff wanted that expert to appear live at trial: (1) the record reflected that the plaintiff was never formally ordered to pay defendant anything; and (2) the plaintiff failed to show any prejudice by her inability to have expert testimony live.  <\/p>\n<p>Lastly, the trial court was in error in allowing the defendant to question the plaintiff\u2019s physician as to whether syphilis could be a source of her pain where the plaintiff was never diagnosed with this condition. Since the error related only to plaintiff\u2019s damages and the jury never considered such evidence as the jury held in favor of the defendant on the issue of liability.  <\/p>\n<p>The plaintiff, Ludgardo R. Castillo, appealed from a jury\u2019s verdict in favor of the defendants, Dr. Jeremy Stevens and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.athleticmed.com\">Center for Athletic Medicine (CAM)<\/a>, on plaintiff\u2019s claim of medical negligence.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-defendant-physicians-motion-for-directed-verdict-in-medical-malpractice-case\/#more-4956\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Appellate Court rejected a claim by the plaintiff, Ludgardo R. Castillo, that expert testimony was required only to establish the applicable standard of care. Also, the trial court did not err in indicating to Castillo that she would have to pay money to the defendant to reimburse defense counsel for expenses incurred in [&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":[27,26,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-malpractice","category-orthopedic-mistakes","category-trial-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 Affirms Defendant-Physician\u2019s Motion for Directed Verdict in Medical Malpractice Case &#8212; Chicago Medical Malpractice Attorney Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Illinois Appellate Court rejected a claim by the plaintiff, Ludgardo R. 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