Will v. Northwestern University

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the firm seeking compensation had submitted a “detailed fee petition” itemizing, to the fraction of an hour, the nearly two thousand hours spent on the case by five attorneys, two paralegals, and three law clerks
• noting that the firm seeking compensation had submitted a “detailed fee petition” itemizing, to the fraction of an hour, the nearly 2000 hours spent on the case by five attorneys, two paralegals, and three law clerks
• survival action asserts a claim for the decedent, and a wrongful death action is for the benefit of the decedent’s family
• “courts have the responsibility to oversee the administration of estates and to approve the actions of an estate’s administrators”
• “survival actions do ‘not create an individual right in a beneficiary to bring suit’ ” (quoting Rogers v. Consolidated R.R. Corp., 136 Ill. App. 3d 191, 193 (1985))
• \survival actions do 'not create an individual right in a beneficiary to bring suit' \ (quoting Rodgers v. Consolidated R.R. Corp. , 136 Ill. App. 3d 191 , 193, 90 Ill.Dec. 797 , 482 N.E.2d 1080 (1985) )

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).