Nguyen v. Tilwalli

PRESIDING JUSTICE NASH

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff, John Nguyen, appeals from a judgment of the circuit court which set off a $11,000 verdict of the jury for plaintiff in a medical negligence action, tried against one of the defendants therein, against the $15,000 plaintiff had earlier received from other defendants in settlement of his claims against them, thereby reducing plaintiff’s recovery of damages on the verdict to zero.

Plaintiff contends the trial court erred in allowing the setoff because (1) the settling codefendants and the nonsettling defendant were concurrent…