Cangemi v. Advocate South Suburban Hospital

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• holding that fraudulent misrepresentation requires that “reliance by the person to whom the statement was made led. to ... injury,” (quoting Stewart v. Thrasher, 242 Ill.App.3d 10, 15-16, 182 Ill.Dee. 930, 610 N.E.2d 799, 803 (Ill.App.Ct. 4th Dist.1993))
• noting that “[p]laintiffs’ amended complaint omitted one of the originally named doctors, Elda H. Simpson, M.D., leaving the hospital and four doctors as defendants”
• allowing the dismissal of an entire complaint even with regard to defendants who had not yet been served with process
• plaintiffs could not show that but for destruction of document, they would have prevailed in underlying suit because they possessed document at one time
• “Plaintiffs cite to no case that specifically recognizes intentional spoliation of evidence as a tort in Illinois. Neither have we found such an Illinois case.”
• \accountability for an agent's fraudulent concealment does not extend to a principal unless the principal is shown to have known or approved of the concealment\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).