Roach v. Springfield Clinic

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• placing burden of estabhshing applicability of peer review privilege on party seeking to invoke privilege
• applying Illinois law and holding that the contents of a conversation between a nurse and a doctor about a baby’s delivery before any peer review committee was initiated is not privileged
• “We are unwilling to extend the Marcin holding to the spouses of defendant doctors’ patients ***.”
• “What the [Act] actually protects is not information of a hospital’s medical staff, but information of ‘committees of licensed or accredited hospitals or their medical staffs ***.’ (Emphasis added.) [Citation.]”
• “earlier-acquired information” furnished to peer-review committee is not cloaked by the Act’s privilege
• where the committee involved consists of members of a hospital’s medical staff, the committee must be engaged in the peer review process before the statutory privilege is applicable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).