225 Ill. App. 3d 598 - Ebbing v. Prentice’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mccastle v. Mitchell B. Sheinkop, M.D., Ltd. · 141 Ill. App. 3d 538 - Hansbrough v. Kosyak · 121 Ill. 2d 188 - McCastle v. Sheinkop · 180 Ill. App. 3d 632 - Moss v. Gibbons · 165 Ill. App. 3d 367 - Hagood v. O'CONNER
Most-quoted passages
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“(a) In any action ... in which the plaintiff seeks damages for injuries or death by reason of medical, hospital, or other healing art malpractice, the plaintiffs attorney ... shall file an affidavit, attached to the original and all copies of the complaint, declaring one of the following: 1. That the affiant has consulted and reviewed the facts of the case with a health professional who the affiant reasonably believes: (i) is knowledgeable in the relevant issues involved in the particular action; (ii) practices or has practiced within the last 6 years or teaches or has taught within the last 6 years in the same area of health care or medicine that is at issue in the particular action; and (iii) is qualified by experience or demonstrated competence in the subject of the case; that the reviewing health professional has determined in a written report, after a review of the medical record and other relevant material involved in the particular action that there is a reasonable and meritorious cause for the filing of such action; and that the affiant has concluded on the basis of the reviewing health professional’s review and consultation that there is a reasonable and meritorious cause for filing of such action. If the affidavit is filed as to a defendant who is ... a podiatrist ..., the written report must be from a health professional licensed in the same profession, with the same class of license, as the defendant.... [T]he affidavit must identify the profession of the reviewin”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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