Caruso v. Pine Manor Nursing Center

PRESIDING JUSTICE MURRAY

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant Pine Manor Nursing Center (Pine Manor) appeals from a jury verdict awarding $65,000 in damages to plaintiff Irene Caruso (Caruso), special administratrix of the estate of Phillip Caruso, deceased, which was increased to $195,000 by the trial court (three times her actual damages) pursuant to section 3 — 602 of the Nursing Home Care Reform Act of 1979 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 111½, par. 4153 — 602). On appeal, defendant contends: (1) judgment should have been entered in its favor as a matter of law because plaintiff failed…