Vincent v. Alden-Park Strathmoor, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “[i]t has become a settled principle of Illinois law” that common law punitive damages are available for “willful and wanton” misconduct
• right to punitive damages for willful and wanton conduct under Nursing Home Care Act did not survive resident’s death
• “Of course, a prayer for punitive damages is not, itself, a cause of action. Punitive damages are merely a type of remedy.”
• “Yhat the right to recover common law punitive damages abates upon the death of the injured party has not been altered by the Survival Act”
• “That the right to recover common law punitive damages abates upon the death of the injured party has not been altered by the Survival Act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).