(July 18, 2017, 3:12 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — An Illinois appeals panel on July 17 affirmed a defense verdict in a medical negligence suit after finding that the trial court did not err in barring certain testimony from the plaintiff’s expert witness and in refusing to give the jury an instruction on contributory negligence (Zbigniew Adwent v. Richard B. Novak, M.D., No. 1-16-0683, Ill. App., 1st Dist., 2017 Ill. App. LEXIS 467)....