McCoy v. Montgomery

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “failure to comply with the service requirements of Rule 4(i) results in a failure to commence the action”
• applying the abuse-of-discretion standard in affirming the circuit court’s decision to strike an expert’s deposition testimony for lack of responsiveness
• holding service must be attempted notwithstanding liberal interpretation of statute
• dismissal without prejudice language in Rule 4(i) does not apply if the plaintiff's actions are otherwise barred by the running of the statute of limitations
• An award of punitive damages |nis justified where the evidence indicates that the defendant acted recklessly or wantonly in causing the injury or with such conscious indifference to the consequences that malice may be inferred.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).