{"id":5592,"date":"2021-12-03T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/?p=5592"},"modified":"2021-11-28T13:14:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T19:14:53","slug":"illinois-supreme-court-reverses-appellate-court-and-affirms-trial-court-in-medical-malpractice-case-regarding-pattern-jury-instruction-on-informed-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/illinois-supreme-court-reverses-appellate-court-and-affirms-trial-court-in-medical-malpractice-case-regarding-pattern-jury-instruction-on-informed-consent\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Supreme Court Reverses Appellate Court and Affirms Trial Court in Medical Malpractice Case Regarding Pattern Jury Instruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On appeal from a trial court decision, the Illinois Appellate Court answered that the circuit court abused its discretion and denied the plaintiff a fair trial by refusing to issue a non-pattern jury instruction. The instruction was about the loss of chance doctrine and a pattern jury instruction on informed consent in a wrongful death and medical malpractice case.  <\/p>\n<p>The appellate court answered that question in the affirmative and reversed the circuit court\u2019s judgment in part and remanded the case for a new trial against certain defendants. However, on appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court, the appellate court was reversed in part and affirmed the circuit court\u2019s judgment in its entirety. <\/p>\n<p>This case involved the death of Joe M. Milton-Hampton; his case was brought by Joe M. Bailey, administrator of the estate. The medical malpractice case was filed in Cook County against the defendants, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercy-chicago.org\">Mercy Hospital and Medical Center<\/a> and several doctors and a nurse.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/illinois-supreme-court-reverses-appellate-court-and-affirms-trial-court-in-medical-malpractice-case-regarding-pattern-jury-instruction-on-informed-consent\/#more-5592\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On appeal from a trial court decision, the Illinois Appellate Court answered that the circuit court abused its discretion and denied the plaintiff a fair trial by refusing to issue a non-pattern jury instruction. The instruction was about the loss of chance doctrine and a pattern jury instruction on informed consent in a wrongful death [&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":[102,99,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appellate-practice","category-illinois-jury-trials","category-jury-instructions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Supreme Court Reverses Appellate Court and Affirms Trial Court in Medical Malpractice Case Regarding Pattern Jury Instruction &#8212; 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