The Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Act has been amended to require that, no later than January 1, 2005, the Department of Human Services must adopt a model protocol and forms for recording all patient diagnosis, care and treatment at each state-operated facility for the mentally ill and developmentally disabled under the jurisdiction of the department.
The Illinois Department of Insurance has simplified regulations regarding the rates charged to motorists with theft deterrent devices in their vehicles.
The Illinois Department of Public Health recently adopted amendments to 77 Ill Adm Code 220.2800, covering the Health Care Worker Background Check section of the Community-Based Residential Rehabilitation Center Demonstration Program Code.
On February 6, 2004, the Illinois Appellate Court, Fifth District, reversed the judgment of the Circuit Court of Madison County granting the defendant attorney's motion to dismiss on grounds of the statute of limitations and statute of repose, and remanded for further proceedings.
A federal appellate decision limited Medicare's subrogation interest in settlement proceeds, but the new Medicare reform law legislatively overturned the court and expands the lien.
The high court holds that defendants with acid-reflux disease can raise it as a defense if it causes them to regurgitate during breath-alcohol testing.
Effective January 1, 2005, the Methamphetamine Manufacturing Chemical Retail Sale Control Act will seek to reduce the damage methamphetamine use inflicts upon individuals, their families, communities, the economy, and the environment by making it more difficult to obtain the requisite chemicals for methamphetamine manufacturing.
On June 24, 2004, the Illinois Supreme Court reversed an order of the appellate court and affirmed the circuit court's finding that evidence sought to be introduced by the defendant was barred by the rape shield statute.
On August 17, 2004, the Illinois Appellate Court, Fourth District, affirmed in part and reversed in part the decision of the Circuit Court of Sangamon County that granted the defendant's motion for summary judgment in a medical malpractice action.
On March 18, 2004, the Illinois Supreme Court affirmed the appellate court's reversal of the trial court's finding of unfitness and termination of a mother's parental rights with respect to the youngest of her four children.
On May 20, 2004, the Illinois Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the appellate court and affirmed the trial court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants.
On December 18, 2003, the Illinois Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the appellate court and affirmed the circuit court's termination of the defendant's parental rights.
On the same day, November 13, 2003, another panel of the Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District, decided a similar case in the opposite, affirming the judgment of the Circuit Court of Sangamon County declaring defendant a sexually violent person under the Sexually Violent Criminal Persons Commitment Act, 725 ILCS 207/1, et seq.
On November 13, 2003, the Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District, reversed the judgment of the Circuit Court of Champaign County declaring defendant a sexually violent person under the Sexually Violent Criminal Persons Commitment Act, 725 ILCS 207/1, et seq.
Thanks to a new seventh circuit case, it's more important than ever for attorneys who represent debtors in Chapter 7 to get all of their fees up front.
If your client is seeking payment from an estate, make sure you file a claim with the probate court even if the estate representative knows about the debt; that knowledge might not put the estate on the hook, according to a new appellate court ruling.
