Tosado v. Miller

Plaintiffs filed separate complaints against Cook County Hospital and its doctors for medical malpractice. Defendants moved to dismiss the complaints on the basis that the complaints were filed after the expiration of the one-year limitations period of the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act (Tort Immunity Act) (745 ILCS 10/8 — 101 (West 1996)). Following the Fifth District Appellate Court’s decision in Cleaver v. Marrese, 253 Ill. App. 3d 778 (1993), the circuit court denied defendants’ motions and held that the two-year limitations period of the Code of Civil…