Cometo v. Foster McGaw Hospital

PRESIDING JUSTICE CAMPBELL

delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal arises out of a medical malpractice action filed by plaintiff, James Cometo, against defendants, Foster McGaw Hospital, Loyola University Medical Center (jointly referred to as Foster McGaw) and Donald Dixon, M.D. As the result of plaintiff’s failure to disclose an expert witness in compliance with the trial court’s discovery orders entered pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 220 (107 111. 2d R. 220), the trial court imposed Rule 220 sanctions on plaintiff in an order dated July 23, 1986, which barred him from introducing…