Court Awards Summary Judgment when Employee Fails to Produce Medical Expert

CHICAGO - A federal court which had barred a plaintiff's medical experts for plaintiff's failure to meet discovery deadlines has granted the defendant-employer's motion for summary judgment for plaintiff's inability to prove causation without medical testimony. Denton v. Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corp., No. 02 C 2220 (N.D. Ill.).

U.S. Magistrate Judge Geraldine Soat Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said June 16 that without expert medical testimony linking Doris Marie Granat-Monteil's illnesses to conditions in her former office building, 'there is no basis to support a reasonable inference of causation.'

Granat-Monteil …