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Ohio Appellate Court Affirms Evidence Of Causation In Hospital Medical Malpractice Case Was Too Speculative

June 1, 2017

In its decision filed on May 5, 2017, the Court of Appeals of Ohio Sixth Appellate District Lucas County (“Ohio Appellate Court”) affirmed the trial court’s granting summary judgment to the defendant hospital in a medical malpractice claim involving a patient’s fractured hip [...]

Ohio Appellate Court Vacates Punitive Damages Award Against Nursing Home

May 19, 2017

The Court of Appeals of Ohio (“Ohio Appellate Court”) issued a decision on April 27, 2017 that vacated a punitive damages award in the amount of $560,000 against a nursing home, finding that the plaintiff had failed to provide sufficient evidence of actual malice and therefore the issue [...]

Ohio Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict In EDG Wrongful Death Claim

April 13, 2017

An Ohio medial malpractice jury returned a defense verdict on March 23, 2017 after a one-week trial and just over one day of jury deliberations in an Ohio wrongful death lawsuit in which the plaintiff alleged that the defendants breached the standard of care in performing an EDG on a man in the ICU[...]

Ohio Appellate Court Holds Patient’s Negative Online Review Of Her Plastic Surgeon Not Actionable

April 8, 2017

In its opinion dated March 20, 2017, the Ohio Court of Appeals Seventh District (“Appellate Court”) held that the negative online review of a plastic surgeon by a former patient against whom the former patient had obtained a medical malpractice verdict was not actionable for tortious int[...]

Ohio Medical Malpractice Settlement For Esophageal Intubation Resulting In Death

February 16, 2017

It was recently reported that a confidential settlement has been reached in an Ohio medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a woman who died as a result of a negligent esophageal intubation, instead of the intended endotracheal intubation, and the failure to timely diagnose[...]

Jail Deaths In Ohio And California Lead To Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuits

November 29, 2016

The Ohio Case The family of a jail inmate who died while incarcerated in an Ohio jail while he was withdrawing from heroin filed a wrongful death medical malpractice case against the private operator of the jail and its physician assigned to the jail, alleging that the doctor’s medical neglige[...]

Ohio Supreme Court Rules Statute Of Repose Applies To Both Vested And Nonvested Medical Malpractice Claims

October 31, 2016

In its slip opinion dated October 25, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio (“Ohio Supreme Court”) overturned the decision of the lower appellate court and ruled that Ohio’s medical malpractice statute of repose, R.C. 2305.113(C), is a true statute of repose that applies to both vested and [...]

$1.9M Ohio Medical Malpractice Verdict Against A Hospital For Death Caused By Untreated DVT

October 28, 2016

An Ohio medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs on October 13, 2016 in the amount of $1.9 million for the wrongful death of a 31-year-old woman who was misdiagnosed and negligently treated in the defendant hospital’s emergency room and then sent home, where s[...]

$11.75M Ohio Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict

October 14, 2016

A birth injury medical malpractice jury in Ohio returned its verdict against the defendant hospital and the defendant OB-GYN on October 6, 2016 after a four-week trial, finding that the defendant hospital was 70% responsible, and the defendant OB-GYN 30% responsible, for the severe and permanent bir[...]

Ohio Responsible For Inmate’s $3M Medical Malpractice Verdict

September 23, 2016

Earlier this month, after three hours of jury deliberations in federal court in Ohio, the eight-person federal jury awarded a former Ohio prison inmate $1 million in compensatory damages and $2 million in punitive damages after the State of Ohio failed to timely file an answer to the inmate[...]

Ohio Cognitive Center’s Director Misrepresented Her Qualifications, According To Lawsuits

August 29, 2016

In four lawsuits recently filed against an Ohio cognitive center, the plaintiffs allege that the center’s director fraudulently misrepresented to them that she was a neuropsychologist at the time the director diagnosed the patients with Alzheimer’s disease, which subsequent second opin[...]

$1.2M Settlement For Paramedics’ Delay In Treating Elderly Woman Who Later Died

June 29, 2016

The City of Columbus, Ohio has agreed to pay $1.2 million to the family of a 76-old-woman who suffered a cardiac arrest and died after paramedics failed to treat her for nearly 25 minutes after she vomited and turned blue while at an MRI facility where she was getting an MRI of her hip. The woman [...]

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