Drazin v. Shanik

The opinion of the court was delivered by

SEIDMAN, P. J. A. D.

This appeal is from the dismissal of a medical malpractice complaint filed against two physicians. The dismissal, on the latters’ separate motions, was based on a holding that plaintiffs were collaterally estopped from bringing the action by reason of a prior determination by Judge Selikoff in the Law Division that the claim was barred by the statute of limitations. Drazin v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp., 148 N.J.Super. 56 (Law Div. 1977).

*78Plaintiff Saundra Drazin instituted suit against two manufacturers of oral contraceptives in…