Antonacci v. City of Chicago

THIRD DIVISION

November 6, 2002

No. 1-01-3317

YVONNE ANTONACCI, Individually ) Appeal from the

and as Special Administrator ) Circuit Court of

of the Estate of JAMES ANTONACCI, ) Cook County.

Deceased, ))

Plaintiff-Appellant, )))

v. )))

CITY OF CHICAGO, a municipal )

corporation, ) Honorable) Kathy M. Flanagan,

Defendant-Appellee. ) Judge Presiding.

We inquire into the extent of statutory immunity given the City of Chicago where its paramedics allegedly failed to perform an EKG or defibrillation on a patient they had diagnosed as having had a heart attack.

The trial court decided in favor of immunity and…