Abbinante v. O'CONNELL

PRESIDING JUSTICE BRESLIN

delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, Kevin O’Connell, appeals from the judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of the plaintiff, Vanessa Abbinante, in a personal injury suit. The defendant claims that the trial court erred in preventing his expert witness from testifying about axial loading as it related to the plaintiff’s injuries. He also claims that the trial court abused its discretion by using a non-Illinois Pattern Jury Instruction (IPI) that substituted loss of a normal life as an element of damages for the IPI disability instruction. We hold…