Jordan v. Lind

This is a medical malpractice case wherein plaintiff alleged, by her fifth amended complaint, that defendants Dr. Charles Lind (Dr. Lind) and St. Mary’s Hospital of Kankakee (St. Mary’s Hospital) were negligent in their performance of nerve blocks in January 1978. The trial court granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment on September 30, 1987, on the basis that the limitations period had run and that plaintiff’s estoppel theory to toll the statute was not well taken.

Plaintiff received a series of lumbar nerve blocks in January of 1978 and a lumbar sympathectomy on February 23, 1978, for…