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Ohio Appellate Court Rules Patient Cannot Sue For Damages For Hospital’s Failure To Produce Medical Records

June 6, 2023

Patient Cannot Sue For Damages For Hospital’s Failure To Produce Medical Records: The Court of Appeals First Appellate District of Ohio (“Ohio Appellate Court”) stated in its April 20, 2023 Opinion: “Frank argues that UCMC was negligent in failing to produce his mother’s me[...]

Ohio Appellate Court Affirms Directed Verdict For Medical Malpractice Defendant

May 7, 2023

Appellate Court Affirms Directed Verdict For Defendant: In August 2019, Plaintiff Deborah Geletka (“Geletka”) filed a medical-malpractice complaint seeking damages from MetroHealth System (“MetroHealth”) and Kevin L. Grimes, M.D. (“Dr. Grimes”). In the Ohio medical malpra[...]

Ohio Supreme Court Rules Absconding Doctor Tolls Medical Malpractice Statute Of Repose

March 27, 2023

Ohio Doctor absconds and is protected by statue of repose: The Ohio Supreme Court stated in its December 6, 2022 opinion: “This discretionary appeal asks whether the four-year statute of repose cuts off a plaintiff’s time for filing a medical-malpractice claim when the defendant has fled the[...]

Ohio Appellate Court Remands Case To Determine If Use Of Heater-Cooler Device During Surgery Was Medical Malpractice Claim

March 2, 2023

Was Using A Heater-Cooler Device During Surgery Malpractice? On July 14, 2021, Patricia Napier filed a complaint asserting claims for negligence, wrongful death, and punitive damages. The complaint alleged that Michael Napier underwent heart surgery at Bethesda North Hospital in November 2016, and w[...]

Ohio Appellate Court Rules Medical Malpractice Statute Of Limitations May Begin To Run At Time Physician-Patient Relationship Terminates

February 27, 2023

Statute Of Limitations Begins When Physician-Patient Relationship Terminates: R.C. 2305.113(A) provides that a claim for medical malpractice must be brought within one year “after the cause of action accrued.” R.C. 2305.113(B)(1) provides: “if prior to the expiration of the one-yea[...]

Ohio Supreme Court Discusses Negligent-Credentialing Claims In Medical Malpractice Cases

February 7, 2023

Negligent-Credentialing Claims In Malpractice Cases: The Supreme Court of Ohio stated in its opinion filed on November 30, 2022: “The issue in this case is whether a hospital’s granting staff privileges to a physician (i.e., credentialing a physician) confers a duty upon the hospital that is[...]

Ohio Supreme Court Rules Medical Provider’s Employer Cannot Be Held Vicariously Liable For Employee’s Negligence Where Statute Of Limitations Expired For Claim Against Employee

February 3, 2023

Medical Provider’s Employer Cannot Be Held Vicariously Liable For Employee’s Negligence: In its opinion dated November 23, 2022, the Supreme Court of Ohio stated, “In this appeal, we consider whether a plaintiff may prevail on a claim of chiropractic malpractice against a chiroprac[...]

82-Year-Old Found Dead Two Days After Walking Out Of Assisted Living Facility

January 27, 2023

82-Year-Old Found Dead Two Days After Walking Out Of Assisted Living Facility: Joan L. Meredith, 82, was a resident at The Merriman, an assisted living and skilled nursing care facility at 209 Merriman Road in Akron, Ohio. She was found dead behind the facility two days after walking away from the a[...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

Ohio Nursing Home Wrongful Death Lawsuit Claims Resident Died After Tracheostomy Tube Removed

October 22, 2022

Lawsuit Claims Resident Died After Tracheostomy Tube Removed: After caring for her husband at home for more than 20 years after he suffered three strokes and an aneurism two years after they were married in 1990, Luana Mowery could no longer provide her husband with the level of care he needed and t[...]

Filshie Clip Migration Lawsuit Filed In Ohio

September 21, 2022

Filshie Clip Migration Lawsuit Filed In Ohio: A federal lawsuit filed on April 4, 2022 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Western Division alleges, in part, that “Ms. Farson was implanted with a female birth control device known as a Filshie Clip. In short, t[...]

Ohio Appellate Court Revives Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Claim, Finding Statute Of Repose Did Not Apply

August 8, 2022

Court Revives Wrongful Death Claim: In its opinion filed on May 19, 2022, the Court of Appeals of Ohio Tenth Appellate District (“Ohio Appellate Court”) revived an Ohio medical malpractice case in which the trial court had granted summary judgment to the defendant, stating, “on the[...]

Ohio Appellate Court Applies Peer Review Privilege To Prevent Discovery Of Incident Reports In Nursing Home Assault Lawsuit

June 7, 2022

The plaintiff in a nursing home negligence lawsuit alleged that John Sexton was assaulted by Vanesha Rice at Summit Leasing Co., LLC d/b/a Wood Glen Alzheimer’s Community (“Wood Glen”) in late January 2019 while Rice was an employee at Wood Glen and John Sexton was residing there. John Sexton [...]

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