{"id":4560,"date":"2019-08-16T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/?p=4560"},"modified":"2019-08-11T17:38:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T22:38:39","slug":"illinois-supreme-court-ruled-that-plaintiff-in-medical-malpractice-case-can-refile-voluntarily-dismissed-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/illinois-supreme-court-ruled-that-plaintiff-in-medical-malpractice-case-can-refile-voluntarily-dismissed-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Supreme Court Ruled That Plaintiff in Medical Malpractice Case Can Refile Voluntarily Dismissed Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Supreme Court unanimously ruled <em>res judicata<\/em> did not bar Gerald Ward from refiling his voluntarily dismissed lawsuit against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmhcares.com\">Decatur Memorial Hospital<\/a>. Although the decision of the Supreme Court was unanimous, it was split on the rationale. Ward was refiling a medical-malpractice lawsuit against Decatur Memorial Hospital for negligence that allegedly killed his brother, Clarence Ward. <\/p>\n<p>A Macon County judge granted the hospital\u2019s motion to dismiss the first three versions of Ward\u2019s complaint. All of the orders included permission to replead, and none of the dismissals were \u201cwith prejudice,\u201d though some claims were dismissed \u201cwithout prejudice,\u201d while other counts were asked without being labeled as \u201cwith\u201d or \u201cwithout\u201d prejudice. As Ward fine-tuned the complaint, he abandoned some of the claims.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before trial was scheduled to start, Ward voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit under <a href=\"http:\/\/ilga.gov\/legislation\/ilcs\/documents\/073500050K2-1009.htm\">Section 2-1009<\/a> of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure and then refiled the case within a year based on code <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilga.gov\/legislation\/ilcs\/fulltext.asp?DocName=073500050K13-217\">Section 13-217<\/a>.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/illinois-supreme-court-ruled-that-plaintiff-in-medical-malpractice-case-can-refile-voluntarily-dismissed-lawsuit\/#more-4560\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Supreme Court unanimously ruled res judicata did not bar Gerald Ward from refiling his voluntarily dismissed lawsuit against Decatur Memorial Hospital. Although the decision of the Supreme Court was unanimous, it was split on the rationale. Ward was refiling a medical-malpractice lawsuit against Decatur Memorial Hospital for negligence that allegedly killed his brother, [&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":[27,30,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-malpractice","category-trial-procedure","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 Ruled That Plaintiff in Medical Malpractice Case Can Refile Voluntarily Dismissed Lawsuit &#8212; 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