Boatmen's National Bank v. Martin

Leona Groboski filed a medical malpractice action in the circuit court of Madison County against defendant, Thomas Martin, M.D., seeking damages for defendant’s alleged failure to diagnose a hemorrhage in Groboski’s brain. Boatmen’s National Bank of Belleville was subsequently appointed as Groboski’s guardian and thus became the nominal plaintiff in Groboski’s action. The jury returned a verdict in the amount of $5.1 million in favor of plaintiff. The appellate court affirmed. (223 Ill. App. 3d 740.) We granted defendant’s petition for leave to appeal (134 Ill. 2d R. 315), and allowed the…