Ferguson v. Riverside Medical Center

The plaintiff, Wanda Ferguson, brought this action in the circuit court of Kankakee County alleging medical malpractice. The trial judge granted defendant Riverside Medical Center summary judgment and later granted the motions of defendants Lewis Ehrlich, M.D., and Donald Parkhurst, M.D., to dismiss the complaint with prejudice; the remaining defendant, D. Sutton, M.D., apparently was not served with a summons and did not appear. The appellate court affirmed the dismissals of the action against Ehrlich and Parkhurst (120 Ill. App. 3d 1170 (order under Supreme Court Rule 23 (87 Ill. 2d R.…