Essig v. Advocate Bromenn Medical Center

Illinois Appellate Court
Civil Court
Medical Malpractice
Citation
Case Number: 
2015 IL App (4th) 140546
Decision Date: 
Friday, May 29, 2015
District: 
4th Dist.
Division/County: 
McLean Co.
Holding: 
Affirmed.
Justice: 
STEIGMANN
Court properly granted summary judgment for Defendant hospital as to claims of institutional negligence, and dismissed medical malpractice/wrongful death case with prejudice after settling with urologist and clinic. Plaintiff failed to establish evidentiary basis for their institutional-negligence claims that hospital failed to own and make readily availabe a holmium laser, for procedure removing kidney stone, and failed to rebut hospital's nurse expert's opinion that hospital did not breach standard of care.(HOLDER WHITE, concurring; TURNER, specially concurring.)