{"id":3868,"date":"2018-01-29T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/?p=3868"},"modified":"2019-05-28T15:53:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T20:53:01","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-rules-amended-complaint-medical-malpractice-case-not-timed-barred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-rules-amended-complaint-medical-malpractice-case-not-timed-barred\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Rules That Amended Complaint in Medical Malpractice Case Was Not Timed-Barred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Appellate Court has ruled that Judith Simpkins\u2019s amended complaint against <a href=\"http:\/\/steliz.org\/\">St. Elizabeth\u2019s Hospital<\/a> was not timed-barred. The Illinois Appellate Court denounced discovery that includes the series of \u201croutine practices\u201d including boilerplate objections and \u201cdump truck disclosures\u201d as amounting to a \u201cmisuse of the discovery process\u201d that \u201cshould not be accepted by our trial courts.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>A dissent was filed by Justice Richard P. Goldenhersh who said that the majority\u2019s directions \u201cinvade the discretionary province of the trial court in determining discovery disputes. The circuit court on remand is perfectly capable of resolving these and similar discovery disputes without appellate mandate predetermining the exercise of their discretion.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The appeals panel majority stated that discovery is not a tactical game, but rather a procedural tool for ascertainment of truth for purposes of promoting either a fair trial or a fair settlement. Ostendorf v. International Harvester, 89 Ill.2d 273 (1982). The Illinois Supreme Court rules regarding discovery represent our Supreme Court\u2019s best efforts to manage the complex and important process of discovery. Sullivan v. Edward Hospital, 209 Ill.2d 100 (2004).<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-rules-amended-complaint-medical-malpractice-case-not-timed-barred\/#more-3868\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Appellate Court has ruled that Judith Simpkins\u2019s amended complaint against St. Elizabeth\u2019s Hospital was not timed-barred. The Illinois Appellate Court denounced discovery that includes the series of \u201croutine practices\u201d including boilerplate objections and \u201cdump truck disclosures\u201d as amounting to a \u201cmisuse of the discovery process\u201d that \u201cshould not be accepted by our trial [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,14,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hospital-errors","category-illinois-civil-procedure","category-medical-malpractice"],"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 Rules That Amended Complaint in Medical Malpractice Case Was Not Timed-Barred &#8212; Chicago Medical Malpractice Attorney Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Illinois Appellate Court has ruled that Judith Simpkins\u2019s amended complaint against St. Elizabeth\u2019s Hospital was not timed-barred. 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