{"id":5109,"date":"2020-02-06T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/?p=5109"},"modified":"2020-02-03T05:53:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T11:53:30","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-affirms-jury-verdict-for-plaintiff-in-medical-malpractice-claim-of-negligence-in-spinal-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-jury-verdict-for-plaintiff-in-medical-malpractice-claim-of-negligence-in-spinal-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Jury Verdict for Plaintiff in Medical Malpractice Claim of Negligence in Spinal Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gloria Tirado and Christian Tirado were plenary guardians of Gina Gutierrez, who brought a medical malpractice case against Drs. Konstantin Slavin and Gerald Oh. In the suit, it was alleged that the doctors negligently performed spinal surgery on Gutierrez and were negligent in their follow-up care.  <\/p>\n<p>In answer, Dr. Slavin raised an affirmative defense of contributory negligence for Gutierrez\u2019s failure to seek treatment and follow medical advice. The case went to a jury trial and during plaintiffs\u2019 closing argument, Dr. Slavin and his counsel came to the aid of a suddenly ill juror. <\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs moved for a mistrial the following morning, which the trial court denied. The trial court then entered judgment on the jury\u2019s verdict in favor of Dr. Slavin and denied plaintiffs\u2019 motion for a new trial. An appeal was taken in which the Illinois Appellate Court affirmed the entry of judgment in favor the defendant physicians. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-jury-verdict-for-plaintiff-in-medical-malpractice-claim-of-negligence-in-spinal-surgery\/#more-5109\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gloria Tirado and Christian Tirado were plenary guardians of Gina Gutierrez, who brought a medical malpractice case against Drs. Konstantin Slavin and Gerald Oh. In the suit, it was alleged that the doctors negligently performed spinal surgery on Gutierrez and were negligent in their follow-up care. In answer, Dr. Slavin raised an affirmative defense of [&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":[62,26,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neurosurgery-errors","category-orthopedic-mistakes","category-surgical-errors"],"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 Jury Verdict for Plaintiff in Medical Malpractice Claim of Negligence in Spinal Surgery &#8212; Chicago Medical Malpractice Attorney Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gloria Tirado and Christian Tirado were plenary guardians of Gina Gutierrez, who brought a medical malpractice case against Drs. 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