Bombagetti v. Amine

PRESIDING JUSTICE TULLY

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is a medical malpractice action against defendant for the improper removal of the wrong disk during a back operation on plaintiff. At trial, the court directed a verdict in favor of plaintiff on the issue of liability and instructed the jury to determine proximate cause and damages. The jury rendered an award of $750,000 in favor of plaintiff for past and future pain as well as disability. Defendant appeals from the judgment as well as the jury award.

In the spring of 1982, plaintiff injured his lower back, after his four-year-old…