Subject Index Medical Malpractice

On August 17, 2004, the Illinois Appellate Court, Fourth District, affirmed in part and reversed in part the decision of the Circuit Court of Sangamon County that granted the defendant's motion for summary judgment in a medical malpractice action. 

On February 21, 2003, the Illinois Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the appellate court that a plaintiff asserting a private right of action under the Nursing Home Care Act, 210 ILCS 45/1-101.

On June 20, 2002, the Illinois Supreme Court reversed the appellate court and upheld the trial court's decision to reject the affidavit of the plaintiff's medical expert.

On April 26, 2002, the Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District, affirmed the decision of the Circuit Court of Kane County in granting codefendant hospital's motion for summary judgment.

On February 22, 2002, the Illinois Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the appellate court in ruling that when a patient and his wife brought a malpractice action against a hospital and doctors, they did not place the patient's mental health at issue.

On April 19, 2001, the Illinois Supreme Court reversed the circuit court's holding that § 2-109 of the Code of Civil Procedure violated the special legislation clause, Ill Const Art IV, § 13, and the right to equal protection, Ill Const Art I, § 2, guaranteed by the Illinois Constitution.

On September 29, 2000, the Second District of the Appellate Court of Illinois reversed the trial court's grant of summary judgment to the defendant on Happel's claim of negligence after she suffered anaphylactic shock resulting from a prescription filled by Wal-Mart's pharmacy.

On August 10, 2000, the Illinois Supreme Court held that the Emergency Medical Services Systems Act (EMS Act) (210 ILCS 50/1 through 33 (West 1994)) does not provide immunity to city-employed paramedics who engage in wanton and willful misconduct.

On June 15, 2000, the Illinois Supreme Court affirmed the lower court's grant of summary judgment to the defendants under the Local Government and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act (the Act) (745 ILCS 10/1-101 et seq. (West 1992)).

Ronald Morrison brought a medical malpractice action against C. G. Wagner, a radiologist; Michael Feely, a neurosurgeon; and St. Mary's Hospital.