Legal Opinion

RUSSELL BY RUSSELL v. Good Shepherd Hosp.

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided December 12, 1991No. 2-91-0351PublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Unverzagt

Plaintiff, Anne Russell, by her parents and next friends Patti and George Russell, appeals the trial court’s order dismissing two of the six counts of her suit for medical malpractice against defendants, Good Shepherd Hospital, Kathleen Hodgman, M.D., and Robert Pines, M.D. Plaintiff argues that (1) count V properly pleaded a claim for willful and wanton misconduct by defendant Hodgman in connection with the prenatal care and delivery of plaintiff, an infant born with severe brain damage, and (2) count VI properly pleaded a cause of action for negligence against all defendants under a theory…

2Cases cited12 opinions

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