Estate of Ahmed v. County of Cook

delivered "the opinion of the court:

After a jury trial on the sole issue of damages in a medical-malpractice suit, an $8,126,711 verdict was returned and judgment entered against six doctor defendants and against Cook County, which was responsible for the operation at the hospital in which the incident occurred. Cook County paid the judgment, and the probate court determined the judgment interest rate to be 6% as specified in the Code of Civil Procedure (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 110, par. 2 — 1303). Plaintiff appeals that the individual defendants are liable for judgment interest at the rate…