{"id":5779,"date":"2023-06-26T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/?p=5779"},"modified":"2023-06-26T05:19:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T10:19:04","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-affirms-medical-malpractice-jury-verdict-on-issues-relating-to-prejudgment-interest-and-trial-court-rulings-on-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-medical-malpractice-jury-verdict-on-issues-relating-to-prejudgment-interest-and-trial-court-rulings-on-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict on Issues Relating to Prejudgment Interest and Trial Court Rulings on Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The defendants, Gregg Coccaro, M.D., and Associated Saint James Radiologist, S.C., appealed from the $6.5 million jury verdict in this medical malpractice lawsuit. The appeal raised the following two issues:<\/p>\n<p>(1) Did the trial court abuse its discretion in making a series of rulings related to evidence, argument and instruction that unfairly prejudiced defendants and thus warranted a new trial; and <\/p>\n<p>(2) Did the trial court err in awarding prejudgment interest because the General Assembly\u2019s 2021 amendment mandating prejudgment interest in personal injury and wrongful death cases (735 ILCS 5\/2-1303(c) (West Supp. 2021)) violated the Illinois constitution?<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-medical-malpractice-jury-verdict-on-issues-relating-to-prejudgment-interest-and-trial-court-rulings-on-evidence\/#more-5779\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The defendants, Gregg Coccaro, M.D., and Associated Saint James Radiologist, S.C., appealed from the $6.5 million jury verdict in this medical malpractice lawsuit. The appeal raised the following two issues: (1) Did the trial court abuse its discretion in making a series of rulings related to evidence, argument and instruction that unfairly prejudiced defendants and [&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":[9,21,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misdiagnosing-cancer","category-misdiagnosis","category-misdiagnosis-of-breast-cancer"],"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 Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict on Issues Relating to Prejudgment Interest and Trial Court Rulings on Evidence &#8212; 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