Zagar v. Health & Hospitals Governing Commission

A cardiac catheterization performed on Lottie A. Zagar, plaintiff pro se, on July 16, 1971, by defendant Doctors Ghazi Jawad-Kanber and William Towne, while resident physicians at Cook County Hospital, is the apparent genesis of a series of her complaints and lawsuits. She appeals from the dismissal of her most recent complaint for “fraud and malpractice” based upon her failure to serve notice upon defendants pursuant to the requirements of the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Indemnity Act (111. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 85, par. 1 — 101 et seq.) (hereinafter Act). We affirm for…