Boatmen's National Bank v. Martin

CHIEF JUSTICE MILLER,

specially concurring:

Discovery is designed to illuminate the issues and evidence in the case, and in that manner promote a fair settlement or fair adjudication in the matter. (Ostendorf v. International Harvester Co. (1982), 89 Ill. 2d 273, 282.) The value of the discovery process is reduced considerably, however, if counsel is not able to rely on the accuracy and thoroughness of the disclosures made by another party pursuant to appropriate discovery requests. Here, plaintiff’s counsel failed to disclose Dr. Schreiber as a treating physician in response to the defendant’s…