Watson v. St. Annes Hospital

The principal issues common to each of the four cases consolidated for these appeals are whether an action in tort for money damages allegedly caused by negligence of certain doctors and a nurse who provided medical care to plaintiffs’ decedents or plaintiffs must be filed exclusively in the IUinois Court of Claims, because each of defendants was employed by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois at the critical times aUuded to in each complaint, and whether, at those times, defendants were acting within the parameters of public officials’ immunity, or not.

Plaintiff Barbara…