Illinois’ Healthcare Services Lien Act, 770 ILCS 23/1 (the Act), allows a health care provider to impress a lien on a patient’s claim for personal injuries up to the amount of the provider’s services. So, if I give medical services to an injured patient worth $2,000, that patient doesn’t pay me, and he later settles …
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Serving The Corporate Defendant – An IL Case Note
(Photo credit: www.corbusimages.com) This case piqued my interest since I recently spent an obscene amount of time trying to serve a defendant in a commercial lease dispute. It wasn’t until after my process server gave sworn testimony for nearly an hour at an evidentiary hearing that the court finally (and mercifully) put the service issue to bed and allowed …
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Failure to Disclose Claim in Bankruptcy Torpedoes Later Injury Suit
What happens if (a) you get injured (and you aren’t at fault and have a claim against the person who injured you) after you file for bankruptcy but (b) before you get a discharge and (c) you don’t inform the bankruptcy court of this claim? That’s the question examined in Schoup v. Gore, 2014 IL App (4th) 130911 (4th …
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