A downstate doctor has filed for a Preliminary Injunction to quash a subpoena from the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.
The Department sent a subpoena for records to a Hospital at which the doctor had worked in the past. However, the subpoena was part of an ongoing case, and the Department did not sent a copy of the subpoena to the doctor or his attorneys.
Also, some of the the Department’s investigative procedures pursue the to 225 ILCS 60/7.5 were ignored. Pursuant toe 68 Ill. Admin. Code 1110.40 the Department must follow the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure with respect to subpoenas.