{"id":4356,"date":"2019-03-26T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/?p=4356"},"modified":"2019-03-25T05:09:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T10:09:43","slug":"illinois-supreme-court-dismisses-interlocutory-appeal-regarding-claim-of-unconstitutional-state-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/illinois-supreme-court-dismisses-interlocutory-appeal-regarding-claim-of-unconstitutional-state-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Supreme Court Dismisses Interlocutory Appeal Regarding Claim of Unconstitutional State Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This interlocutory appeal to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illinoiscourts.gov\/SupremeCourt\/\">Illinois Supreme Court<\/a> was dismissed. A supervisory order was entered remanding the case back to the trial court. <\/p>\n<p>The plaintiff in this case filed a wrongful death and survival action lawsuit alleging medical malpractice of the defendant <a href=\"https:\/\/doctor.webmd.com\/practice\/union-health-service-inc-b131c2c7-4703-e211-a42b-001f29e3eb44-overview\">Union Health Service<\/a>. The defendant alleged immunity under Section 26 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilga.gov\/legislation\/ilcs\/ilcs3.asp?ActID=1276&#038;ChapterID=22\">Voluntary Health Services Plans Act<\/a>. The Circuit Court of Cook County judge denied defendant&#8217;s Section 2-619 motion on the grounds that a 1988 amendment to Section 26 is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>The denial of the motion to dismiss is an interlocutory ruling, and it was found not to be subject to review by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illinoiscourts.gov\/supremecourt\/rules\/art_iii\/ArtIII.htm#302\">Supreme Court under Rule 302(a)(1)<\/a>.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/illinois-supreme-court-dismisses-interlocutory-appeal-regarding-claim-of-unconstitutional-state-law\/#more-4356\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This interlocutory appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court was dismissed. A supervisory order was entered remanding the case back to the trial court. The plaintiff in this case filed a wrongful death and survival action lawsuit alleging medical malpractice of the defendant Union Health Service. The defendant alleged immunity under Section 26 of the Voluntary [&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":[14,27,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illinois-civil-procedure","category-medical-malpractice","category-wrongful-death"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Supreme Court Dismisses Interlocutory Appeal Regarding Claim of Unconstitutional State Law &#8212; Chicago Medical Malpractice Attorney Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This interlocutory appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court was dismissed. 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