PROUTY v. ADVOCATE HEALTH & HOSPITALS CORP.

No. 1-04-0515.

810 N.E.2d 173 (2004)

348 Ill.App.3d 490

284 Ill.Dec. 520

Toni Lee PROUTY, Individually and as Mother and Next Friend of Dezirae Prouty, a Minor, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ADVOCATE HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION, d/b/a Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital, Defendant-Appellant (Tri-County Emergency Physicians, Ltd., Joseph Giangrasso, Geralynn S. Renner, John Breckerman, and Pediatric Care, P.C., Defendants).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Second Division.

Rehearing Denied June 8, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Johnson & Bell, Ltd., Chicago (Thomas J. Fegan, of counsel), for Defendant-Petitioner — Advocate Health and Hospital Corp., d/b/a Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital.

Motherway & Napleton, Chicago (Robert J. Napleton, of counsel); Law Offices of Lynn D. Dowd, Naperville (Lynn D. Dowd, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Respondent.


Justice GARCIA delivered the opinion of the court:

In this permissive interlocutory appeal taken pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 306(a)(2) (166 Ill.2d R. 306(a)(2)), the defendant, Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation, d/b/a Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital (Advocate), appeals from the circuit court's order denying its motion to transfer this case from the circuit court of Cook County to the circuit court of Lake County, based on the doctrine of forum non conveniens...

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