Steed V Rezin.pdf

Susan Steed, as Independent Administrator of the Estate of Glenn Steed, Deceased, is the plaintiff-appellee in a case against Rezin Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, S.C., the defendant-appellant, with the case being appealed from the Appellate Court of Illinois, Third Judicial District. The plaintiff's response brief argues that the Appellate Court properly followed the Pedrick standard to reverse the judgment in favor of the defendant and remand the case for a new trial on damages only, citing cases such as Maple v. Gustafson and Pedrick v. Peoria & Eastern R.R. Co. The brief also argues that the plaintiff was entitled to a judgment as a matter of law (JNOV) as to the standard of care because the testimony to support the plaintiff's claim was uncontroverted, and that the Appellate Court properly determined that the defendant breached the standard of care by failing to follow a physician's orders. Additionally, the brief argues that proximate cause was overwhelmingly supported by the evidence and that the defendant's attempts to refute "cause-in-fact" were unsuccessful. The plaintiff also argues that they are entitled to a new trial because the verdict was against the manifest weight of the evidence and that certain irrelevant and highly prejudicial evidence and argument were improperly admitted.