Whitley v. Lutheran Hospital

This case is on an interlocutory appeal certified to this court pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 308. At issue is the interpretation of a new section of the Civil Practice Act, specifically section 21.1. The text of the section follows:

“The plaintiff in any action based on an allegation of negligence in the performance of health care services may designate as respondents in discovery in his pleading those individuals, other than the named defendants, believed by him to have information essential to the determination of who should properly be named as additional defendants in the action.

Persons…