Tsoukas v. Lapid

Plaintiff, Kyriakos Tsoukas, appeals a jury verdict rendered in favor of Drs. Lapid, Stewart, Widger, Kornmesser and Shah and Lutheran General Hospital, and summary judgment rendered in favor of Dr. Lawrence Bergman on plaintiffs medical malpractice complaint. On appeal, plaintiff contends the circuit court erred in: (1) barring the testimony of plaintiffs rebuttal pathology opinion witness as a violation of Rule 213 (166 Ill. 2d R. 213); (2) instructing the jury on comparative negligence instead of on a duty to mitigate damages; (3) admitting certain medical evidence and barring certain…