{"id":999,"date":"2013-01-04T13:38:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T19:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury-robertkreisman.lawblogger.net\/?p=999"},"modified":"2019-10-28T10:36:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T10:36:06","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-affirms-dismissal-of-injury-lawsuit-for-heir-on-summons-emrickson-v-morfin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-dismissal-of-injury-lawsuit-for-heir-on-summons-emrickson-v-morfin\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal of Injury Lawsuit for Heir on Summons; Emrickson v. Morfin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lawsuit brought by Patricia Emrickson against Fernando Morfin was dismissed with prejudice because Ms. Emrickson&#8217;s attorney relied on an online search service that had inaccurate information about the current address for the defendant, Mr. Morfin. Under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.il.us\/court\/supremecourt\/rules\/Art_II\/ArtII.htm#103\">Illinois Supreme Court Rule 103(b)<\/a>, a suing plaintiff has a duty to use reasonable diligence in serving a defendant with the complaint.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the lawsuit was filed by Ms. Emrickson just a short time before the two-year statute of limitations had run out. Although the lawsuit was filed in a timely fashion, Mr. Morfin was not served immediately with the complaint, which alleged that Ms. Emrickson was injured in a car accident. It took 13 months before Mr. Morfin was finally served with a summons.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Illinois Appellate Court, Ms. Emrickson chose not to use reasonable diligence in having Mr. Morfin served before the statute of limitations expired, opening the way for Mr. Morfin to dismiss the case with prejudice under Rule 103(b).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-dismissal-of-injury-lawsuit-for-heir-on-summons-emrickson-v-morfin\/#more-999\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lawsuit brought by Patricia Emrickson against Fernando Morfin was dismissed with prejudice because Ms. Emrickson&#8217;s attorney relied on an online search service that had inaccurate information about the current address for the defendant, Mr. Morfin. Under Illinois Supreme Court Rule 103(b), a suing plaintiff has a duty to use reasonable diligence in serving a [&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":[45,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-accidents","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 Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal of Injury Lawsuit for Heir on Summons; Emrickson v. 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