Downey v. Dunnington

Plaintiff, Sandra G. Downey, sued a surgeon, Gary Dunnington, and his employer, Southern Illinois University (SIU) Physicians and Surgeons, Inc., for medical malpractice. This is an informed-consent case. The jury returned a verdict for the defendants, and plaintiff appeals. She argues the trial court erred in certain rulings it made before and during trial. She also argues the verdict is against the manifest weight of the evidence and, for that reason, the court should have granted her a new trial. We find error in two evidentiary rulings; but we conclude that if the court had ruled the…