LUELLA MOORE, Appellee,
v.
JACKSON PARK HOSPITAL et al., Appellants. — RICHARD ISAACS, Appellee,
v.
MICHAEL REESE HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER et al., Appellant. — TONI GROSSMAN FENCHEL, Appellee,
v.
MICHAEL REESE HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER, Appellant.
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Opinion filed February 18, 1983.
Rehearing denied April 8, 1983.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Lord, Bissell & Brook, and Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, both of Chicago (R. Dennis Rasor, Harold L. Jacobson, Hugh C. Griffin, Richard C. Bartelt, William F. Haley, and Williams P. Dorr, of counsel), for appellants.
A.J. Hardiman, Ltd., of Chicago (Terrance J. Coughlin, A.J. Hardiman, and Eugene C. Hardiman, of counsel), for appellee.
Lord, Bissell & Brook, of Chicago (Harold L. Jacobson, Williams P. Dorr, and Hugh C. Griffin, of counsel), for appellant.
Berger & Herman, Ltd., Alan D. Katz and David S. Pochis, Ltd., and Joel H. Fenchel, all of Chicago (Marvin L. Herman and Alan D. Katz, of counsel), for appellees.
McLaughlin, Kinser & Bryant, of Chicago (Harry L. Kinser and Kenneth C. Robbins, of counsel), for amicus curiae Illinois Hospital Association.
Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago, and Epton, Mullin, Segal & Druth, Ltd., Special Assistant State's Attorneys (Saul A. Epton, Thomas E. Kluczynski, and Jeffrey Singer, of counsel), for amicus curiae County of Cook.
Supreme Court of Illinois.
Affirmed and remanded.
JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the court:
These consolidated cases involve the validity of section 21.1 of the Limitations Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 83, par. 22.1). Section 21.1, on the date the complaints in these cases were filed, provided as follows:
"No action for damages for injury or death against any physician or hospital duly licensed under the laws of this State, whether based upon tort, or breach of contract...
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