Ruff v. Northwestern Memorial Hospital

PRESIDING JUSTICE SCARIANO

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff-appellant Eva Ruff filed a complaint charging Dr. Charles Nadler, Dr. George Blumenschein and Northwestern Memorial Hospital 1 , with negligence arising from the treatment and subsequent death of her husband, Sheldon Ruff, who had been suffering from Hodgkin’s disease. After the plaintiff’s filing of two amended complaints, the circuit court granted summary judgment in favor of defendant-appellee Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and when plaintiff’s motion for a rehearing seeking to vacate the summary judgment order and to…