Corlett v. Caserta

PRESIDING JUSTICE McMORROW

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff Mary Corlett (plaintiff), as special administrator of the estate of her late husband, Arthur W. Corlett, Jr. (Corlett) (hereinafter collectively referred to as the Corletts), filed a wrongful death suit against defendant Dr. John A. Caserta (Caserta). Plaintiff alleged that Caserta’s negligence in failing to make an earlier diagnosis of Corlett’s development of gastric bleeding following colon surgery proximately caused Corlett’s death. Caserta filed a motion for summary judgment, arguing that Corlett’s refusal of a blood…