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Ohio Appellate Court Rules Lawyer For Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Cannot Continue To Represent Her

June 26, 2018

The Court of Appeals of Ohio Second Appellate District Miami County (“Ohio Appellate Court”) ruled in its June 1, 2018 Opinion that the plaintiff’s medical malpractice lawyer cannot continue to represent her in an Ohio medical malpractice case, stating “in light of the role p[...]

Ohio Appellate Court Overturns Brachial Plexus Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Due To Inadmissible Other Acts Evidence

June 19, 2018

The Court of Appeals of Ohio Sixth Appellate District Lucas County (“Ohio Appellate Court”) held in its Decision and Judgment dated May 25, 2018, in an Ohio shoulder dystocia brachial plexus birth injury medical malpractice case, that the trial court “abused its discretion in admit[...]

3 Ohio Nursing Home Aides Indicted For Resident’s Death

May 21, 2018

Earlier this month, an Ohio grand jury indicted three nursing home aides in connection with the death of an elderly resident who wandered off from the nursing home where the aides worked. Four employees of the nursing home were terminated after the incident. The 76-year-old nursing home resident had[...]

$100K Ohio Medical Malpractice Verdict For Surgical Sponge Left In Patient

April 29, 2018

An Ohio medical malpractice jury awarded $100,000 in an Ohio medical malpractice wrongful death case against a surgeon who admittedly left a surgical sponge in a patient after performing surgery. The patient died fifteen months after the surgery and her family claimed in its Ohio medical malpractice[...]

Ohio Appellate Court Rules Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Missed One-Year Statute Of Limitations

April 6, 2018

The Ohio Court of Appeals Ninth Judicial Circuit (“Ohio Appellate Court”) ruled in a case it decided on March 14, 2018 that the plaintiff’s Ohio medical malpractice lawsuit was untimely because it was not filed within Ohio’s one year statute of limitations for medical malprac[...]

Ohio Appellate Court Refuses To Enforce Arbitration In Medical Malpractice Case

March 11, 2018

The Court of Appeals of Ohio Third Appellate District Allen County (“Ohio Appellate Court”), in its decision filed on February 20, 2018, held that the defendant hospital in an Ohio medical malpractice case had waived its right to arbitrate the plaintiff’s medical malpractice claims[...]

$11.35M Ohio Medical Malpractice Verdict For Birth Injury Brain Damage Claim

March 3, 2018

After a two-week trial and a day of jury deliberations, on February 15, 2018, an Ohio medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $11.35 million in favor a child who suffered brain damage due to alleged medical negligence during his delivery. The parents brought the Ohio birth inj[...]

Hospital Kept Surgeon On Staff Despite Allegations Of Raping Two Patients

January 20, 2018

The Cleveland Clinic allegedly kept a colorectal surgeon on its staff, treating patients, despite complaints from two of his patients that he raped them. The Cleveland Clinic reportedly settled one of the patient’s claims by paying a confidential settlement. The surgeon allegedly anally raped [...]

Ohio Appellate Court Applies Statute Of Repose To Dismiss Eight Medical Claims Against Former Spine Surgeon

January 10, 2018

The Ohio First District Court of Appeals (“Ohio Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on December 27, 2017 in eight consolidated cases on appeal that the Ohio statute of repose for medical claims was not unconstitutional and that the plaintiffs’ claims against a former spine [...]

$375K Ohio Nursing Home Negligence Settlement

October 4, 2017

A nursing home in Ohio has agreed to pay $375,000 to the family of an 83-year-old resident who died after she received 20 times more oxycodone than was ordered by her doctor, to settle the nursing home negligence claims. The woman died on July 7, 2015 after she received 500 mg of oxycodone over the [...]

Ohio Supreme Court Holds “Apology” Inadmissible In Medical Malpractice Case

September 28, 2017

The Supreme Court of Ohio (“Ohio Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on September 12, 2017 that under the plain and ordinary meaning of “apology,” for purposes of R.C. 2317.43(A) (Ohio’s apology statute), a “statement[] * * * expressing apology” is a statement tha[...]

Did False Positive Drug Test Lead To New Mother Being Accused Of Heroin Abuse?

June 26, 2017

A Cincinnati woman has filed a lawsuit against a hospital and state investigators who made her life a living hell for two months, during which time she was repeatedly accused of being a heroin addict who was a threat to her newborn and her other children. The woman’s painful and embarrassing o[...]

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