Legal Opinion
Wheaton v. Suwana
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided January 11, 2005No. 5-02-0693PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Kuehn
Larry and Elizabeth Wheaton initiated this lawsuit against M. Stevens Suwana, M.D., EA.C.S., for alleged medical malpractice and resulting loss of consortium. The suit was dismissed as untimely because Dr. Suwana was an employee of Union County Hospital District at the time of the medical actions at issue and that hospital district was a local public entity subject to the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act (Act) (745 ILCS 10/ 1 — 101 et seq. (West 1998)) and its one-year statute of limitations. Larry and Elizabeth Wheaton appealed from the trial court’s October 2,…
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