{"id":2698,"date":"2013-12-26T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2019-10-28T10:33:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T10:33:17","slug":"illinois-allows-one-voluntary-dismissal-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-allows-one-voluntary-dismissal-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Allows Only One Voluntary Dismissal of a Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Illinois Appellate Court has affirmed a decision made by a Cook County Circuit Court judge regarding a twice-filed injury case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Michael Fiorito and Joseph Bellocchio were involved in a traffic collision on Oct. 19, 2001.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Fiorito was injured and hired a lawyer to sue Bellocchio.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In August 2003, the attorney for Fiorito filed a complaint against Bellocchio in the Circuit Court of Cook County but never told Fiorito about it.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>A year later, Fiorito fired his first lawyer and hired a new one.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The second attorney was unable to determine if the first attorney had filed a lawsuit and so filed a second one on his own in October 2003.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-allows-one-voluntary-dismissal-lawsuit\/#more-2698\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Appellate Court has affirmed a decision made by a Cook County Circuit Court judge regarding a twice-filed injury case. Michael Fiorito and Joseph Bellocchio were involved in a traffic collision on Oct. 19, 2001.\u00a0Fiorito was injured and hired a lawyer to sue Bellocchio.\u00a0 In August 2003, the attorney for Fiorito filed a complaint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,5,46,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-accidents","category-car-accidents","category-civil-procedure","category-illinois-civil-procedure"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Allows Only One Voluntary Dismissal of a Lawsuit &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Illinois Appellate Court has affirmed a decision made by a Cook County Circuit Court judge regarding a twice-filed injury case. 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