Legal Opinion
Cummings v. Jha
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided September 25, 2009No. 5-08-0182PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRESIDING JUSTICE WEXSTTEN
delivered the opinion of the court:
The defendant, S. Lakshmanan, M.D., performed laparoscopic surgery on the plaintiff, R. Kevin Cummings, to remove Kevin’s gallbladder. Kevin suffered a common postoperative complication, a bile leak, that went undiagnosed by Dr. Lakshmanan and the defendant-appellant, Gautam Jha, M.D. Kevin, along with his wife, Pamela R. Cummings, filed a medical negligence action against Dr. Lakshmanan and Dr. Jha in the circuit court of Marion County, claiming their postoperative care of Kevin fell below accepted standards of care because they…
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