Travaglini v. Ingalls Health System

PRESIDING JUSTICE CUNNINGHAM

delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a jury trial of this wrongful death action, on September 13, 2007, the circuit court of Cook County entered judgment on the jury’s verdict of $500,000 for the plaintiff Clara Travaglini (the plaintiff) 1 , the independent executor of the estate of Bernard M. Travaglini (the decedent) and his wife, and against the defendants, Ingalls Health System, a corporation, and Ingalls Memorial Hospital, a corporation (the defendants). The defendants now appeal, alleging that the trial court permitted the opinion of a lay witness,…