Case Management Orders Must be Flexibly Applied in Cases Involving Minors: Hinshaw's Annual Guide to Key Illinois Medical Malpractice Litigation: 2020 Edition | Hinshaw & Culbertson - Health Care
Issue Was a plaintiff's expert properly prevented from testifying about the allegedly improper care of plaintiff's son? Case Summary Plaintiff had only disclosed one expert to testify that defendant doctors violated the standard of care causing her minor son's eye injury. The trial court blocked that expert from testifying after a deteriorating relationship between plaintiff and her former trial counsel caused the expert to miss the deadline for his deposition. The appellate court stated that under these circumstances an "appropriate order" would have been to delay the parties' trial date, or...
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