Wilson v. Michel

Plaintiff sued defendant for negligence after she hired him to perform a sterilization procedure on her and she subsequently experienced the birth of a healthy child and three miscarriages. Following trial, the jury awarded plaintiff $160,000 for pain and suffering and $15,000 for disability and the court entered judgment in that amount. Subsequently the court granted defendant’s timely motion for a new trial. This court then granted plaintiff’s petition for leave to appeal pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 306 (134 Ill. 2d R. 306).

On appeal, plaintiff raises these issues: (1) was the jury’s…